Chapter 4 Xiao Wei (2nd Update)
Water in the desert is more precious than anything else and is the guarantee of life. Water is indispensable for boat trips, but in order to bring more goods with the caravan, the amount of water stored will be reduced as much as possible.
Things are always contradictory.
This is reflected in the fact that there are two more female slaves than male slaves in caravanserais, and there is not much difference in the care of male and female slaves. For the same specific daily amount of water supply, one pot for men and one pot for women.
A pot of water can only ensure that when it is hot and dry, moisturize the skin of the mouth, for a beautiful slave girl, even a grooming cannot be completed. Of course, you don't have to dress up in the desert, because no one here will watch them get dressed up.
Now the three slave girls regret it a little, even if they are upper-class, their bodies are healthy and attractive, but the pungent body odor still can't attract the attention of their masters.
Zhang Xiaofan asked the three women to find a place to sleep quickly, dancing to help the fun, but just run over to sleep, the black and bright hair should be flowing and seductive, adding a little beauty, but it keeps falling sand down.
Long leather boots were worn on smooth and delicate calves, and on the knees were a thin shirt made of linen, and the proud Xiufeng could not hide it at all, but at this time he had to add a poem: "Look from afar and do not play with it." ”
As soon as the three women approached, the smell of barbecue around them was immediately diluted, and they were quickly hit by a fermented fishy stench.
The tent is huge, so four people can play hide and seek here, and the sleeping space is very spacious.
Nothing happened overnight.
Thirty-six people set off again, originally according to the steward's instructions, by following the sand dunes to the southwest, but Zhang Xiaofan insisted on sweeping the desert robbers' lair.
All Dog Giants are Sand Bandits, but Sand Bandits don't just refer to Dog Giants.
The strong physical strength of the Dog Rong Giant is easy to form combat effectiveness, so in comparison, the Dog Rong Giant is known for its fierce reputation, and most of the sand bandits are willing to use the name of the Dog Rong Giant, and they can destroy the enemy's courage on the battlefield.
Zhang Xiaofan's strong order only let the steward explain, and then the whole team implemented Zhang Xiaofan's thoughts, and carried it out without regrets, as for who robbed whom after seeing the bandits, these slaves can't think.
Zhang Xiaofan thought that these people had confidence in themselves, but in fact, the real situation was far from the same.
The number of robbers in the desert is at most more than 300 people, and large gatherings of more than 300 people rarely occur. And the robbers in a gathering place account for about a hundred people at most, and the rest are slaves or captives, as well as the cubs of the robbers.
This time, the caravan encountered more than thirty robbers, accounting for at least one-third of the combat strength of the sand bandits. The steward and the others have seen Zhang Xiaofan's amazing efficiency in killing people, and they don't mind the next journey at all, just because this is the direction to victory.
If he can sweep the sand bandits' lair this time, and the master's slave team will at least double, then he will become a veritable high-class slave, and Zhang Xiaofan can't guess the idea of being in charge.
Walking in the desert, Zhang Xiaofan walked around, only to find that he had been circling in the desert before. The direction of walking cannot be guided by the sun, and nothing in the desert is directly indicated by the dunes.
And according to the instructions of the sun's rays, it is a mistake in itself.
Because the sun rises in the morning and goes north-northeast, not due east, that is to say, it does not go east, but north, and in the afternoon the sun sets in the northwest, and it goes south instead of east.
I thought I had walked thousands of miles back and forth in a day, but in fact it was only five or six miles.
In other words, I thought I had walked 108,000 miles of tribulation, but in fact, I only walked more than 1,000 miles.
Zhang Xiaofan secretly spit on himself, and he played in circles for most of the year, if it wasn't for the sand bandits robbing the caravan, he wouldn't know how much time he would have to spend in the desert. That is, if you have a storage bracelet, you would have become a dry corpse if you were someone else.
People have to learn a lesson, the steward in the desert can not be disoriented by the wind and sand, naturally he has his own methods and methods, when he sees his master shamelessly asked, he still behaves respectfully and speaks out.
After two consecutive days of explanation, Zhang Xiaofan finally knew the method of identifying the desert, and finally met with the sand bandits' spies that night.
Above the vast sea of sand, the endless wind and sand constantly rolled up the sand on the ground and slowly moved eastward.
The caravan of more than thirty people was a pile of gold coins in the eyes of the bandits, and it was a delicious gold coin, and it was not difficult to eat it at all.
Zhang Xiaofan let go of the sand bandits and continued to move forward, walking for less than half an hour, his divine consciousness faintly felt that there was a noisy market a few miles ahead.
"Prepare for battle," the steward shouted, and all six generals raised their steel swords, while the twenty-eight slaves all consciously tied their hands and formed a circle, waiting for the slave master's great victory to return, or to replace the slave master.
Zhang Xiaofan didn't expect that the sand bandits would also be ambushed, and they were ambushed under the sand, and his divine consciousness only extended along the surface of the sand dunes, and he didn't know anything about the ambush under the sand dunes.
"Wait," Zhang Xiaofan listened to the steward talk about many rules in this world in the past two days, and was particularly interested in the sand bandits in front of him, not for the blood baptism, but for the gold coins.
Entering the new scroll world, Zhang Xiaofan has long stopped exchanging coins, and sometimes when it is powerful to a certain level, money loses its meaning. However, this scroll world is obviously different, so in order to be able to cultivate with peace of mind, Zhang Xiaofan doesn't mind gathering some forces and goods.
You must know that the most important thing for a cultivator is the wealth of the Dharma.
Possessions are the most important thing, because cultivation requires all kinds of materials, and these materials are only collected by oneself, and the time speed is too slow, if there is a group force, it will be much easier. Couples, not Taoist couples, but like-minded crowd forces around them, a person's cultivation is like a blind man touching an elephant, it is easy to boast and arrogant, and the consequences of self-cultivation behind closed doors are even more like the abyss in the middle of the night, it is easy to go mad and go astray.
Fa, basically, refers to the method of cultivation; The earth refers to the cultivation environment, which can be encountered but not sought.
The law and the land need chance, and the wealthy couple should take the initiative to seek it themselves.
When the sand bandits saw the caravan, it was like seeing gold coins, and Zhang Xiaofan looked at these sand bandits like this.
The steel knife in his hand flew up and down, and when the steward was ordered to come forward to check, all the sand bandits were hit by Zhang Xiaofan's acupoint, and they couldn't move.
"As long as the acupoints can still be used," Zhang Xiaofan listened to the compliments of the steward and the six generals about himself, and didn't care at all.
"Steward, ask them, how many people are there in their gathering place? How far is it from here? ”
The steward was a careful person, and quickly got the news out of the mouth of the bandits, and successfully rebelled against more than a dozen bandits, who were willing to surrender and become inferior slaves, and begged Zhang Xiaofan to give them a chance to be slaves.
The steward was just passing on the word, and he was not interested in these sand bandits, and as for what the master thought, he did not know.
Zhang Xiaofan gathered all the sand bandits together, looking at these unruly bandits, there was no tamed weakness in his eyes at all, more cunning eyes, it seemed that he regarded Zhang Xiaofan as a papaya, could he be easily deceived?
In fact, most people kill sand bandits with one knife when they see them, because even if they are sold as slaves, few people buy them, and the capriciousness of sand bandits is notoriously known. No slave owner wanted to be surrounded by a group of sand bandit slaves who were ready to make trouble.
Zhang Xiaofan was not afraid, and easily subdued the tendons of these sand bandits, so that they could only walk, but they could not exert a little more strength. As long as you take them to your own cultivation ground, there are ways to make them obey. I am not a good man and a woman, even if I feel uncomfortable when I see my compatriots suffering, but it is only limited to what I see in front of me or what I hear.
These sand bandits were tied with their arms, and because their arms could not be forced, even if they wanted to escape, they were at a loss, and more than 30 robbers were stretched into a long line, which was particularly attractive on the way to the sand bandits' lair.
So when Zhang Xiaofan and his party of 70 people arrived at the gate of the sand bandits' lair, more than 100 sand bandits were already in full array, the team was neat, the swords were unsheathed, and the bows and crossbows were ready.
The sun was setting, and the sky was full of blood.
And Zhang Xiaofan only saw a petite figure, shrunk in the arms of the sand bandit leader, his eyes were full of pity and touching.
"Did you come to Painted Skin?"