Chapter 22: A New Reckoning
Leaving their captives behind, the Black Hawk Thieves set out on their way back.
When passing through the Valley of Flames, Bai Qi first sent horse thieves to climb the mountain peak to inspect before leading the team into the Valley of Flames.
Such caution puzzled the horse thieves, but now that Bai Qi was very powerful, everyone didn't dare to ask more, only the reckless Xiao Tie asked the question in everyone's heart, "Master, no one will come to ambush us at this time?" Why bother? β
Bai Qi glanced at Xiao Tie and sneered: "Huang Mazi also thought so before he died, in Huang Mazi's opinion, at that time, we should hide in the village and tremble, instead of coming here to ambush him, so he walked into our ambush circle defenselessly, so he died." β
"I don't want to be the second yellow horse, so I won't think so, when I encounter this kind of terrain, even if there is not even a 1 in 10,000 possibility, I will send someone to investigate, compared to my own head, what is a little trouble?"
Bai Qi's words made the horse thieves around him nod their heads again and again.
After a day and a half of trekking, the team was already less than a hundred miles away from Moon Lake, and Bai Qi suddenly ordered to turn around and head northeast, bypassing Moon Lake, and heading east.
Although the horse thieves were puzzled, Bai Qi did not mean to explain to everyone, and he urged the team all the way to the northeast, and after a day's trek, they came to the edge of the Mongolian steppe.
Here, a mountain range separates the Mongolian steppe from the Hexi Corridor, and in this continuous mountain range, there are only a few passes for horses to cross.
At this time, Bai Qi took his horse thieves to walk in one of the valleys, because there are many bluestones in the valley, and the hunters and herdsmen who come and go call it bluestone mouth.
It was a difficult trek through the valley for most of the day. Finally, in the afternoon, we crossed the valley. Came to the endless prairie.
Facing the fiery sunset, Bai Qi took the horse thief. Along the northern side of the mountain, at the foot of the mountain, he galloped west for more than ten kilometers and stopped in a valley where a small stream flowed.
The vegetation in the valley is luxuriant, the water and grass are abundant, and the horses that have been galloping in the desert for two days have lost some weight at this time, Bai Qi immediately ordered his subordinates to immediately seize the time, and cut the grass to feed the horses while it was still dark.
The horses were settled. Bai Qi summoned all the leaders.
Sitting high on a boulder, Bai Qi looked at the puzzled expressions on the faces of the leaders below, and said, "Everyone must be wondering, why don't I go back to Moon Lake directly, why do I come to this place where birds don't?" β
Seeing that the horse thief leaders below nodded one after another, Bai Qi showed a meaningful smile and asked, "You said, if anyone sues the horse thieves of the SΓΉ Humore tribe, my people have already arrived on the grassland." Preparing to raid his lair, how will the people of Humour react? β
After listening to Bai Qi's words, most of the horse thief leaders still had an inexplicable look, but. Even among the horse thieves, there were smart people, and a few of them immediately showed a look of sudden realization. Among these people are the two masters of the Seven Stars.
Qixing's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "The Humors heard the news. I will definitely come back immediately......"
Another clever little leader couldn't help but say, "By the time they arrive at Qingshikou, they will definitely be sleepy." I'm ambushing them at the exit of this bluestone mouth......"
Hearing this, most of the leaders understood Bai Qi's intentions, and immediately became excited, and someone shouted excitedly: "Yes! It's like ambushing the yellow horse! Haha......"
The doubts that had gathered in the hearts of the horse thieves for a few days had all been transformed into excitement and adoration and awe for Bai Qi at this moment.
The captain sitting in the crowd watched this scene, looking at Bai Qi's faint but revealing an incomparably powerful and confident smile on his face, and felt mixed feelings in his heart.
The captain had also led a team, and in those days when he was the captain, he was almost out of breath under the heavy pressure, and now looking back, the deepest impression left on him during those days was restlessness, endless anxiety, which was both from the pressure of space missions and from the doubts of his subordinates.
Seeing Bai Qi flip his hand, he turned the difficulties that seemed to be able to solve the dead, and easily won everyone's awe and worship, and the captain was both happy and a little jealous.
Hundreds of miles away, there was a man who, like the captain, was in a mixed mood.
Most of the horse thieves didn't notice that one of them was missing, and that person was the Black Harrier (Heinrich), one of Bai Qi's henchmen.
At this time, Heinrich was already on the shore of the Moon Lake, he was lying on a tall sand dune in the distance, and was using a telescope to observe the Moon Lake in the distance.
On the shore of the lake, the once lively Black Eagle Town was deserted at this time, and in the stockade, many Mongolian horse thieves were nervously patrolling around, and the horse thieves who did not have the task of patrolling, some were training, and some were looking around anxiously, in short, there was a tense atmosphere in the whole camp.
Recalling the words he had said two days ago when Bai Qi explained his intentions to several space soldiers in private, Heinrich's feelings in his heart were also mixed, with admiration, fear, and strangely, even a hint of expectation.
On that day, they rounded Moon Lake and spent the night under a sand dune in the northwest, and Bai Qi sent away the doubtful horse thieves with a mysterious smile and recruited space soldiers to his side.
He looked at everyone with burning eyes and said, "I don't plan to exterminate the Hu Mo horse thief tribe, destroying the Huang Ma Zi, one of the four major horse thieves in the northwest, is enough to push my prestige to the top, there is no need to bother to eliminate the Hu Mo horse thief." On the contrary, due to the different ways and nature of the composition, there is no conflict of interest between us and the Humour horse thieves, and since the yellow horses can hire them, why can't we. β
"Therefore, I need a negotiating messenger, with the head of Huang Mazi, to negotiate with Hu Moore on my behalf, and tell them that no matter how much Huang Mazi gives him, I can give him double, how can a yellow horse who has only risen for two or three years compare financial strength with Black Eagle, who has dominated the northwest for more than ten years, and I believe that Yingfei's name should be more reputable than Huang Mazi."
Speaking of this, Bai Qi's gaze wandered around everyone's faces and asked, "Who can be the negotiator for me?" β
Huang Mao raised his hand without hesitation and said, "I, I am willing to go." β
Bai Qi glanced at him, shook his head, and said, "You are not suitable to be a messenger. β
He added: "Don't worry, I won't let you die, first of all, I have prepared an invisibility scroll for the messenger, and secondly, I have also prepared many means for the messenger to escape. β
"Let the indigenous horse thieves go, I don't worry, only space warriors will not betray us to horse thieves, among us, in fact, Adrian is the most suitable for doing this, but she is not there, Barian and Qin Qing are both mages, and their survival ability is poor, and Baryan lacks adaptability, Qin Qing is a woman, not suitable, Zhang Junqiang has an impulsive personality, and he is not suitable for cooperating with peace messengers."
After speaking, Bai Qi's gaze fell on Heinrich's face and said, "Except for Adrian, as a warrior, you are the most suitable. (To be continued......)