Winters in Lam López are always snowy, but that doesn't mean the entire northern part of the country is snowy. In fact, snow can only be seen in winter along the mountain range. It was also a relatively affluent area in central Lombuck.

Leaving the mountains and heading north, the whole world is different.

If the south is rich and Lyn López is barren, then the place where Andrew and Christina are going must be described as a lack of grass.

The yellow earth was covered with ravines and ravines, and everywhere there were rocks with strange shapes eroded by the earth and wind, and weeds scattered in a mess, almost every one of which was withered and yellow. Occasionally, the skeletons of various large animals can be seen.

The water source is even more invisible. Even the sky is a withered yellow color.

This is a place of death, and the difference between it and the desert may be that there is more sand in the desert, but there are more rocks here. Give nature a little more time, and when the wind has eroded all these rocks enough, there will be a new desert.

After walking more than 300 kilometers and sleeping in the open for several nights, Andrew, who already looked old, suddenly became more haggard.

Fortunately, when they left Lin López, they bought two horses and a carriage by the way, otherwise Andrew might have died halfway through. After all, he had never been so tormented in his life, even when he was forcibly marching with Gray.

Or, to be precise, have never experienced such a harsh environment. It was dry and cold, and Andrew's face was blown peeling.

Fortunately, Christina is a dragon, which is really nothing for a dragon.

Every day, Christina sat next to Andrew and watched him catch the car.

"Are you really not going to change your face back?"

"Uh...... I also want. But there's water, a lot of water. We have just enough water to drink. After all, we still have two horses. ”

"And if there was water, would you change it back?"

"Yes. ”

Christina nodded happily.

It's all here, it shouldn't be possible for the lich to be tracked down, right?Lin Lopez is in a mess like that, and Andrew really doesn't believe that the lich ran to Lin Lopez and can find any clues. In this case, there is no need to grieve yourself.

However, the journey is really fatal. It's really terrible.

Although they had read about this place in books before, and even before entering this place, they were reminded of it, but the reality was still much more terrifying than Andrew imagined.

The fact that there are almost no human beings is the biggest proof of the harsh environment here. In a way, humans are like fleas on the Celtic continent, if you give them a random place, they will grow and spread all over quickly. And if there is any place where even fleas do not grow...... Well, that's enough to show how hostile the environment of this place is.

Walking along the boundless desert Gobi, walking all the way, from beginning to end, Andrew hardly saw half a figure. Even if there is, it is a post station. It was where the Lombback royal family used to deliver their message, a hut, wind-blown cracked walls, and two or three grizzled soldiers. Nothing else.

Fortunately, there is still a post station, otherwise Andrew would not even have a place to replenish food and water. Although there is a Christina next to him who can turn into a dragon at any time and take him for thousands of miles in an instant, it is not a last resort, and Andrew still doesn't want to do it.

On the one hand, the goal of the dragon is really big. On the other hand...... Didn't you just boast that you would take care of her in Haikou? Is it appropriate to let her take care of her so quickly?

At night, Andrew set up the carriage behind a huge rock to escape the unbridled winds of the moor. Then the tent was erected and a bonfire was lit.

"Two more days, two more days, and we can leave the desert and enter Uduffin. Around the campfire, Andrew explained to Christina: "It's not really good there, but at least it's raining." And there are people living there. I heard that Lombback has set up a special military town over there to dominate the surrounding tribes. Although it may not be as good as Lin López, I think the place should be good. ”

"Are we going to move there?"

"Uh......" Andrew replied hesitantly, "No, I just wanted to tell you that we'll be there soon." There's no food here, but there's there. ”

"Are you afraid I'll go hungry?" asked Christina.

"You haven't eaten in days. ”

"Dragons could have gone days without food. Some dragons only eat once a year or two, and we don't need to eat every day like other races. ”

"Okay......"

That being said, Andrew was still a little worried after all. After all, he never seemed to see Christina eat. Of course, it refers to eating in the form of a dragon and eating a lot of that in one go.

One of the major characteristics of "elopement" is that it is confused. The world is big, but I don't know where to go. Andrew had no choice but to take what he thought was the safest route – to go where there were fewer people.

After all, fewer people mean less chance of them being found.

Of course, one of the consequences of this is that their lives will become more and more difficult. After all, the less crowded the place, the harder it is to find prey in general. All kinds of inconveniences in life also followed. It's like it is now. Kristina, who has always been fair-skinned and beautiful, has been blowing the north wind for a few days, and she has also begun to become gray-faced.

"If one day, you find out that I lied to you, will you be angry?"

"You lied to me?"

"No, I mean, 'what if'. This is just a hypothesis. ”

Christina thought for a moment, then replied with a smile, "I don't know, probably not." ”

The eyes were still so clear that it seemed as if they could see through the soul at a glance. This made Andrew a little worried.

When he first entered the desert, Andrew was somewhat worried, and he would be vigilant in the middle of the night. After all, who knows if there will be bandit gangs or anything like that in this desert? In such a deserted place, it is simply convenient to rob houses and destroy corpses.

Soon, however, he discovered that there were no robbers here. Except for the vultures in the sky, the snakes, insects, rats and ants on the ground, there is nothing here.

Another night passed.

Just in case, Andrew also deliberately put the excess dead wood on the carriage, after all, in this desert, dead wood is not something that is found everywhere.

Then they continued north.

The journey is still so boring, just moving forward mechanically. The scenery all around seems to have never changed.

Andrew was dozing off. If it weren't for the fear that as soon as he fell asleep, the horse would stop, and when he woke up and found that he was still in the same place, Andrew really wanted to go straight to sleep.

Christina was still so happy, sitting in the carriage and looking around, happy to see everything.

Originally, Andrew felt that this road should be like this, although the road is far away, although the environment is bad, nothing will happen. It's only a matter of time before you walk through.

However, at noon on the seventh day of their entry into the desert, a whole troop of cavalry appeared in front of them.

Andrew was stunned.

In a line, there were forty cavalrymen. Riding a tall horse, he wears a linen dress that looks like if a thread is taken away and it will fall into strips of rags. They were all dirty, as if they hadn't taken a shower for a year. Each one was tightly wrapped in a turban, revealing only two eyes with white pupils staring coldly ahead. Judging from the skin color of the exposed hands, they were also as white as the blood clan.

There is no extra armor on the body except for wrist guards, leg guards, and protection of the heart position. The scimitars looked extremely sharp, but the handles were tied with strips of black cloth that were as dirty as rags. And it's tied up very messily.

When normal people encounter such a cavalry team, they will probably think that this is a bandit group, so just run away. Andrew doesn't think so, though. Because he found that the way the other side lined up was trained by the regular army. And they also have flags.

Led by the cavalry, dressed in black broken robes, behind them were two triangular flags, on which was a string of words that Andrew could not read.

Andrew tightened the reins and brought the carriage to a stop.

The cavalry in front did not move, but watched from afar, watching them. The cavalry at the head was tilted high, with a sense of looking down. The black oily horse under the crotch kept stepping in place.

"Can you read what is written on the flag?" Andrew asked Christina next to him.

"I don't understand. Christina shook her head.

The two sides looked at each other silently.

After a while, the black-robed cavalry led by him rode forward, pulled down the turban that covered his face to reveal his white beard, and then shouted something to Andrew, and after finding that Andrew couldn't understand it, he turned to shout in the common language of the mainland: "Who are you? Why are you here!"

Andrew stared blankly.

Before Andrew could figure out how to answer, the other party had already directly pulled out the scimitar on his waist and shouted, "Answer my question immediately!"

Did something happen to Uduffin? That's Andrew's first thought.

This menacing ...... All right.

Helpless, Andrew's eyes flickered, and he shouted, "We're going to Lin Lopez!"

"Are we going to Limlopez?" asked Christina.

"Shhhh Andrew quietly made a silent gesture.

"Lin Lopez?" The other party was stunned: "It's not in this direction to go to Lin Lopez, are you going wrong?"

"I guess we're on the wrong side!" shouted Andrew, "Our map was taken by wolves, and then we got lost!"

"The wolf took your map?"

"That's a sheepskin map!"

All of a sudden, the group of horsemen laughed.

The bearded man at the head seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, put away his scimitar, and rode towards Andrew and Christina's carriage.

It wasn't until they got closer that Andrew could see the other person's face clearly.

It was a potted face, a pale complexion, and a scar on the left side of the eye, but it didn't seem to be blind. Although they are blind and not blind, they don't look the same because their pupils are white.

This is the real "barbarian". Andrew had also seen him in Lin López.

In fact, this is the most mainstream race of Lombback. Even the most powerful Lombak royal family here is of this race. It's just that Lin Lopez is still relatively far from the border, and the "barbarians" don't like to live in places like Lin Lopez, so there are few there. Strictly speaking, they are actually humans, but their appearance is a little different from ordinary humans.

"Keep your head down and don't let him see your face. Andrew whispered.

Christina hurriedly wrapped her cloak tightly and kept her hood as low as possible.

Wandering up to Andrew, the bearded man pulled out the scimitar at his waist and picked up the shed in their carriage to look at it, and then stabbed the thing in the cart a few times to make sure that no one else was hiding in it, and then put the knife away again. He sighed and said, "Turn around, you're going in the wrong direction." I can't believe anyone can get lost here like you. ”

"U-turn?" Andrew faked.

"Turn back, go in this direction, walk for half a month, and you can reach Lin López. ”

"But we're coming from that direction. ”

"So you're stupid, go back. As he spoke, the bearded cavalry had turned his horse's head.

"No, we can't go back. Behind is the desert, and we've been walking for days. We needed water, food, and a few other things. Can you give us some?"

"No, you can't. The bearded horsemen on horseback had already begun to run back, shouting along the way: "This place is blocked, no one is allowed to pass!

As the bearded cavalry left, the rest of the cavalry followed. Of course, they were not all gone, and two cavalrymen stopped where they were, as if they wanted to wait for them to leave before leaving.

In desperation, Andrew had to hurriedly turn the car around and walk back.

"Are we really going back to Lin López?"

"Of course not. ”

Andrew carefully craned his neck to look back, and only after making sure that the two remaining horsemen were also gone, did he stop the carriage and said, "Uduffin must have had an accident, but we still have to go." Of course, you'll have to wait for the evening. I don't want to go back to the same path. It would be better if they were well defended, and it would be difficult for the golden dragon to find us in Uduffin. ”

Christina blinked at Andrew.

After thinking about it, Andrew said again: "However, I'm afraid it's not realistic to sneak over. It's a long way off, and it's still more than a day's way from Uduffin. The desert space is empty, and it is clear at a glance. If they had troops everywhere, we would have been easily discovered. ”