Chapter 116: "Clues" (I)
Draenor observed the expressions of the people around them, Jeanne and Viklily looked quite calm, and everyone's situation was quite optimistic for the time being, except for Cooper who was lying on the ground writhing like a worm.
"Uh, uh...... Oops, that's a choking! The money has been given to you, can you give me back the boots first? "There seemed to be something wrong with the door of the carriage, and the door opened a gap, and half of Cooper's leg was almost exposed outside the carriage. The hot sand and dust kept hitting the soles of his feet, and it didn't take long for it to turn into cooked ham.
"Alas...... Don't toast and don't eat, don't eat and drink, and if you make any more noise, you old man from a foreign country will be thrown out! The coachman tapped the top of the carriage with the hilt of his knife, and Cooper smacked his mouth twice before he stopped for a moment.
These people were indeed a little too careless, and they didn't even have any doubts about the identity of Draenor and his party. Dwarves, Blood Sects, Canaanite and Werewolves, they didn't even bother by name, they just used the word "Outlander" to call everyone together.
There are only two kinds of people who can ignore the identity of the other party, either the well-informed wise or the stupid with a lot of brains, and luckily these tomb robbers are on the latter side.
And they confiscated only the most threatening weapons, such as Vikirico's spear, Draenor's dagger and firebolt, and only Cooper's hand axe and Jeanne's dagger were hidden behind them. While the remaining weapons were enough to help the group untie the ropes, Draenor preferred to wait and see, with his retinue spears in hand, making it difficult for them to escape unscathed.
At the moment before he was taken into the carriage, Draenor roughly counted the number of the other party, twenty-six horses, twenty-four people, in addition to the number of people who only held cold weapons, and nearly a dozen people with long guns in their hands, although those guns looked a little unfamiliar, but even a flintlock pistol that could only shoot one shot at a time was enough to threaten the lives of Jeanne and Cooper. All they could do at the moment was to wait for the opportunity, and although they only had a few words of conversation with the other party, it was enough to know from the mouth of the leader that they did not want to know the lives of the group easily.
Draenor calmly analyzed the current situation, the big goal was undoubtedly to find the location of the current Long King, and it was obvious that it would be difficult for a group of five people to continue to traverse the remaining desert area. Judging from the clothes of these tomb robbers, they should be residents of the Snowway border area, and maybe they can find some breakthrough to negotiate with the other party.
Just as he was concentrating on his thoughts, there was a sudden sound of sand churning all around, and after a few seconds he heard the neighing of frightened horses outside the carriage, and the grave robbers were in a mess and opened fire on something one after another.
"It's a sand tiger!"
"Lege! Think of a way! ”
"Ah!!h
The carriage sped uncontrollably. Jeanne turned her head from side to side in a panic, and although she couldn't see what was going on outside, it was clear that they had been attacked by some terrifying creature.
Draenor had a smile on his face, he was worried that he couldn't find the so-called "breakthrough" just now, but now it's a godsend! He quickly straightened up, took a deep breath, and jerked open his shoulders to break the rope that bound his arm. Jeanne pulled the dagger from her waist with a move of her arm, and in less than ten seconds she cut the ropes from everyone.
Draenor saw his surroundings through the crack in the door as soon as he got up, and his retinue galloped like madness on their horses, swords and guns waving wildly in the air, as if desperately resisting some monster that was invisible to the naked eye. He suddenly thought of the "sand tiger" that those people had shouted before, and there was no roar of a wild beast around him, it was obvious that it was a creature that he had never encountered before.
"Cooper is on standby in the carriage, Jeanne, try to stop the carriage! Vicky and I are trying to find a way to get those weapons back! He commanded the people.
Jeanne kicked the door and rolled over and jumped onto the roof of the car, only to be knocked unconscious by a punch before the driver could come to his senses. She secured the coachman to the edge of the seat, pulled the reins and took hold of the panicked horse.
The tomb robbers didn't have a chance to care about the situation behind them, and fled as if they were flying, and the carriage carrying the group slowly stopped in the middle of the desert. Draenor was about to jump out of the carriage when he saw a thin layer of gauze covering the sand around him, which was light but looked so strong that even the wheels of the carriage could not leave a mark on the "gauze".
Cooper didn't seem to notice the sudden appearance of "gauze" on the ground, and he poked his head out of the carriage to look around, and the stupid tomb robbers had already run a few hundred meters away.
"They won't be able to catch up now! It's good luck to slip away! The dwarven uncle burst out laughing, and before Draenor could turn to stop him, Cooper had already stomped his shoeed left foot on the ground. Suddenly, he felt a strange touch under his feet, as if he had stepped on a taut leather drum, and with the vibration under his feet, the gauze around him trembled like strings.
A huge sand dune gradually rose at one end of the gauze, and a strange rock with countless arthropods suddenly rushed towards the carriage.
"Damn, what the hell is this!!" Cooper shouted and retracted, but his left foot remained as if it was firmly glued. Draenor quickly got up and hugged Cooper's waist and abdomen, pulling his left leg out of his boot like a turnip.
At the moment when the two of them collapsed in the carriage, the boot that was glued to the gauze had been swallowed into the belly by the boulder. Less than three meters away, Draenor could tell the true face of the monolith at a glance - it was a giant spider covered in armor!
Luckily, the spider didn't attack the people in the carriage, but turned around and hid back in the sand at flying speed.
"Is this the 'sand tiger'? It's really troublesome. Draenor sighed as he looked at the gauze that had gradually subsided, and it seemed that there was no way to leave the carriage for the time being.
From previous observations, it is not difficult to find that this spider has almost no vision, and those dense "eyes" on the top of the head are more like some sunken eardrum, and it does not notice the sound of Cooper's shouting, indicating that it is not an ear or something like that, but an organ used to sense the vibration of a spider's web.
Vickyli didn't dare to act rashly on the door frame of the carriage, knowing that if she touched the "gauze" covering the ground, she would attract the giant monsters. However, his weapon is placed in the mezzanine at the lower end of the carriage, and if he wants to retrieve his weapon, he must find a way to get out of the compartment.
Draenor seemed to have thought of a way to do it, he raised his leg and stomped the bottom of the carriage, then turned his head to look around at the movement, the carriage shook incessantly, but the gauze covering the ground did not shake in the slightest.
He poked his head out to look at the wooden wheels that supported the carriage, the four wheels had been firmly wrapped in spider silk, it seemed that the principle of this spider silk was the same as he thought, he hurriedly said to everyone, "Spider silk can only transmit a certain point of vibration, and the wheels are wrapped in a 'protective film' because of the previous high-speed rotation, which is why the carriage can move on the spider web!" ”
Vikily remembered the spider's leg structure, and while the arthropods looked unusually thick, the feet were the size of a horse's hooves in contact with the ground. In other words, he didn't have to fight those strange creatures at all, and all he needed to do now was to tell Jeanne to wave the reins and drive the carriage out of the neighborhood.
Just as she was about to convey her thoughts to Jeanne, there was a sudden whisper of pleading behind her, and everyone quickly leaned to the door of the carriage to look out, only to see that less than fifteen meters away from the carriage was lying a thin man, he was wrapped in gauze-like fine spider silk, leaving only a pair of tearful eyes looking helplessly at the people in the carriage.
Although she couldn't see the whole picture of the other party, that annoying look was firmly in her mind after only one glance.
The man wrapped in a cocoon was none other than the tomb robber who had been staying with the leader, Condell.
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