Chapter 47: The Nameless Horse Thief
There is a small red dot on the Gobi in the distance.
For travelers who walk in the Hanhai Desert all year round, this is actually not a landscape, and it is not surprising enough, but for Fang Chuan, who has walked in the Hanhai for more than half an hour, except for some black beetles, poisonous scorpions, and a few bushes of poplar and sand date trees, and has not seen other living creatures, any scene that triggers eye associations and surprises indicates a turning point, desolation is a huge destruction of people's vision, plus the fog of Hanhai has only opened a little bit, Fang Chuan, who has no clear goal, is anxious in his confidence, what Hanhai Flying Eagle, Not even a single eagle feather could be found, hoping that the red dot would bring him good luck.
When he rode his horse closer, he saw a red-clothed lama chanting under a sparsely green date palm tree, the appearance of the NPC was a good sign, and sure enough, Fang Chuanxin found an oasis nearby, but it was extremely small, a small lake was protected by a sand date tree, red willow and poplar trees in the form of a mirror, fighting the wind and sand in the low hills on all sides.
It's a pity that he didn't see any other NPCs, so Fang Chuanxin tried to communicate with the red-clothed lama, but in addition to constantly chanting the scriptures, this NPC would only say one sentence: "Vipassana mind, vipassana inward, if you don't scatter and contemplate yourself with your own mind." ”
is worthy of being a monk, Fang Chuanxin knows every word of what he says, but he doesn't understand what he is talking about, Fang Chuanxin has been around him for a while and can only give up.
After leaving the small oasis and walking a little further, luck began to favor Fang Fang, and he saw a stone town, a boulder, some like a giant tortoise, some like a horse galloping, and more like a double stone split by a sharp sword, these boulders of different shapes, in the depths of the desert occupied a space, the clear spring water from the top of the stone town, a boulder shaped like a mother's womb, rolled out, watering this dry area, bringing infinite vitality to the neighborhood, the horse lotus grass everywhere, the horse orchids and wild chrysanthemums that grew in the yellow sand nest, Countless desert people are stationed here, there are knights and their followers and pursuers in the wind and dust, there are carved chariots with curtains and looming pretty faces, there are many warriors in armor, NPC guards look out over the beacons of the boulders and castles, the banners are hung with eagle flags, the corners are cracked with the wind hunting, and the reflection of the sword halberd makes the yellow sand around dim.
Fang Chuanxin rode his horse in, the fog of the map of this place dissipated, and under a closer look, the stone city was fully equipped, this is a city no less than Xiangzhou City, he first went to the post station to report, activated the post station contact between this place and the Absolute Dust Town, and then entered the very characteristic desert tavern.
The first thing Fang Chuanxin did when he went in was to find the hotel shopkeeper to learn about the local news, and as an official member of the Hanging Eyes organization, Fang Chuanxin would get more information than ordinary players, such as the recent merger of the two groups of horse thieves of the Sand Fox Gang and the Blue Wolf Gang, the defeat of the Sand Fox Gang, and the whereabouts of the gang leader Blood Fox - this is good news for players who received a task to find the bad luck of the Sand Fox Gang horse thieves; The second piece of information is that the number of people from outside Stone Town has suddenly increased recently, the reason is that the Stone Camel Gang has dug up an ancient treasure and obtained many rare treasures, and will hold an auction in Stone Town - this is also good news for players who need to buy special materials, and the third news is about the news released by some foreign caravans in Stone Town to recruit guards and bodyguards, and interested players can go to apply.
There was not a single word of Hanhai Feiying in the three messages, and Fang Chuanxin had no choice but to start the second plan, and it would cost money again. He first stuffed the hotel shopkeeper with silver: "Shopkeeper, I ask for the news of Hanhai Flying Eagle." ”
The hotel shopkeeper immediately released the task in the hanging eye system, and at the same time said loudly to everyone in the tavern: "This young man is looking for the Hanhai Flying Eagle, if anyone here has seen him and is willing to tell this young man, there will be 1 tael of silver...... Heavy rewards. ”
can use the word heavy reward, which means that the hotel owner has already sent a message to the other party that this peer is benevolent and righteous, and only 1 silver is not a huge amount of money for players at this stage, let alone these NPCs? The high-rollers who were drinking in the hotel suddenly laughed, and showed no mercy at all: "Is it called Hanako for such a little bits and pieces?" ”
Fang Chuanxin's face did not change, NPC's ridicule was a purely systematic conspiracy, if the bounty was increased, unless it was really a lot of money, it would be useless to add five, six, seven or eight taels of silver, in the eyes of these Jianghu high-rollers, it still belonged to the category of sending food, even if Fang Chuanxin's current family background was willing to go bankrupt in order to buy a message, I was afraid that these NPCs could not be asked to look at it differently, and simply gave the lowest price that could release the task.
If he didn't have a direct relationship with Hanhai Flying Eagle and inquired about the news, these NPCs wouldn't be able to look down on this bit of reward, and they would indeed be likely to ignore it, but Fang Chuan was confident that he was carrying a mission, and his goal was clearly pointing directly at Hanhai Flying Eagle, which had the strongest trigger condition, and if the NPCs in the tavern had clues about Hanhai Flying Eagle, there was a high probability that they would be touched by it.
Can be regarded as an enemy by the old Wu family who has been brewing for six hundred years, this Hanhai Flying Eagle is not a nameless, in a male city like Stone Town, especially in the inn with the most concentrated news, the probability of encountering or seeing the Hanhai Flying Eagle NPC will be very high.
Sure enough, after a while, an NPC in the corner said in a calm voice: "I'm going to reward him, I know where he is." ”
The clue was triggered, and the other NPCs immediately forgot about the scene just now, and continued to talk about it casually, Fang Chuanxin walked over, and saw that this NPC was wearing a shabby felt hat, covering a face towel on his face, and revealing a pair of eyes that looked like a vulva, he called for wine but did not drink it, and he was able to occupy a table in this crowded hotel, and the NPCs next to him kept their distance from him, such a dress and an attitude that even NPCs couldn't avoid, indicating that he was a horse thief who entered the city, and dared not to disguise himself as a horse thief who showed his red guoguo, which shows that this person has no fear, either he has high skills, or he has a great background.
There are not many other horse thieves in the desert: the Sand Fox Gang, the Blue Wolf Gang, the Stone Camel Gang, the Long Tooth Gang, the Iron Horse Gang, and some unknown purpose robbery horse thieves, lone horse thieves and cut the path horse thieves, most of them are horse thieves, sometimes businessmen, sometimes bodyguards, sometimes bounty hunters, their roles are changeable, and they can't be prevented, and Stone Town can't help but prevent horse thieves, and even has inextricable links with various horse thief gangs, don't easily mess with a horse thief in the desert, Because you don't know what kind of huge forces are behind him, and you don't know what kind of means he has.
Fang Chuanxin followed the customs of the villagers, and had no intention of causing trouble, he handed over the bounty, but the nameless horse thief didn't look at it, but just asked, "What are you looking for Hanhai Flying Eagle?" ”
"Kill him."
"Kill him? It's up to you! The nameless horse thief took his right hand from under the wine bowl and said with an indescribable sneer in his tone.
Fang Chuanxin noticed that half of his right palm had been cut off, leaving only his little finger and ring finger, no wonder he didn't drink, but he was afraid that even if he wanted to drink, it would be difficult to guarantee that he would not pour out the wine when he picked up the wine bowl, that scene must be very sad.
Seeing that Fang Chuanxin noticed his hand, the tone of the nameless horse thief was neither sad nor joyful:
"This hand used to be as fast as lightning and as steady as Mount Tai, I once thought it was the fastest and most stable hand in Hanhai, but he never expected that now it is even unstable with a wine bowl."
Fang Chuanxin said seriously: "Since the end of the right hand is unstable, why don't you use the left hand?" ”
The nameless horse thief said coldly: "The left hand is used to hold the knife. ”
His left hand kept holding the hilt of the knife at his waist and didn't move, making Fang Chuanxin feel that this NPC was very individual, and he asked tentatively:
"The person who injured your right hand is the Hanhai Flying Eagle?"
"Who else but him?"
"In that case, let's join forces against him." Fang Chuanxin considered himself a team player and immediately proposed to cooperate.
The nameless horse thief didn't seem to hear his words, but said to himself: "It is said that Hanhai Flying Eagle only kills people with one knife, and I have a broken hand but I am still alive and well, so I don't believe in this evil." Now my left hand is faster than my right hand, I want to see who is the real Hanhai Sword from now on!"
…… This NPC didn't seem to have the intention of forming a team, but his subsequent words made Fang Chuanxin see the hope of borrowing strength, the nameless horse thief
said: "Tomorrow is the fifteenth, the yellow calendar says that the fifteenth local officials descended, and there was a disaster of blood light, but I don't know who the blood light will rush to." ”
He laughed gloomily: "Tomorrow afternoon, I will agree with Hanhai Flying Eagle to have a life-and-death duel in Heluochuan, thirty miles outside Stone City, this battle will either die for him or me, if you are interested, you may as well come and testify." ”
Fang Chuanxin naturally agreed, calculated the time, there were still about 6 hours left before "tomorrow afternoon", and after the nameless horse thief said these words, he no longer bothered with Fang Chuanxin, and Fang Chuanxin considered doing something else first.
He first found the diviner here in Stone Town, and received the Ranger entry task of digging up a deeply buried treasure within a radius of twenty miles southwest of Stone Town, within a radius of two kilometers.
Fang Chuanxin recalled the key points of the treasure hunt that Yancheng Ruthless Jun said, first measured the distance on the small map, calculated the length of twenty miles on the map according to the conversion ratio given by Yancheng Ruthless Jun, and drew an arc in the southwest direction of the map according to this length, and each point on the arc was connected into a ribbon shadow within a radius of two kilometers, which was the real hiding range of the treasure, far more than a radius of two kilometers, and the workload was actually not small.
Before leaving, Fang Chuanxin checked again, Kunlun Yu and Luoyang Shovel Shake have been prepared, the durability of weapons and armor is full, and they can cope with various situations, this trip will inevitably take a lot of time, Fang Chuanxin thinks that he has to finish his work in one battle, if he runs again, it will be too troublesome, and he is also thinking about taking a look at whether he can complete the hanging eye task of Hanhai Dragon Hunting on the way to do the task, and happened to encounter the "Hanhai Salon" that he can't find for a long time.
In short, hope is wonderful.