"Hey, brother, what's wrong with you?!" a man in ragged clothes collapsed on the desert, and another man in tattered clothes standing next to him immediately walked over. I threw away the supplies in my hand and tried to pick him up.

A thin man dressed in the uniform of a municipal magistrate of the Republic of Marvil held a long rattan stick in his hand and jerked hard at the back of the man who was trying to lift his companion.

"Smack!"

The man who had been drawn immediately fell to the ground, groaning in pain.

Seeing this, all the other captives of the Kosai Kingdom soldiers who were escorted by the city officials to the Western Desert to do hard labor could not help but grit their teeth with hatred, the eyes of these captives were full of hatred as strong as the scorching sun, their ankles were chained, their hands were also holding heavy objects, and everyone was exposed to the scorching sun, and the heat was unbearable.

Since the defeat of Jack the Green Ghost outside the city, the more than 10,000 infantry captives of the Kosai Kingdom have all been escorted to the western part of the Marvil Republic, ready to use these men to clear the wasteland. The Marquis of Ampvo, who may have fled back to the Winter Kingdom, had already reported to his king that 30,000 men had been wiped out, so no one cared about the fate of the captives for a long time—except for their wives and children in the depths of the interior, who had been looking forward day and night, but no longer had the opportunity to see the warriors return.

This group of Kingdom soldier captives had previously staged a rebellion when they suddenly mutinied while working in a quarry. Since most of the soldiers in the Marvil Republic were mercenaries, except for a few key officials who had a small number of guards. Officials under the republican system did not have much personal property unless they were corrupt and corrupt, so the people who supervised the quarries at that time were the mercenary regiments hired by the municipal council to supervise the captives.

As a result, the place where the rebellion took place became a slaughterhouse, and those mercenaries were actually premeditated. They first irritated the captives by their casual abuse, ignoring their dignity, and then placing a large number of crossbowmen near the quarry in order to enjoy the pleasure of killing.

Who knew that the more than 10,000 Kingdom soldiers all regarded death as home, and actually broke through the ambush circle of the mercenary group, not only killing all the mercenaries who supervised them, but also extending their "bloody hands" to everyone in that city.

The massacre of the entire city was almost caused, but fortunately, the city magistrate immediately closed all the entrances and exits of the city, and all the mercenaries in the city immediately stood up to resist the captives.

This incident quickly alarmed the Senate of the Republic of Marvil, and the First Senator Tyre reacted quickly and sent a suppression force.

The end result was a bloody end in which the kingdom soldiers paid a heavy price for the prisoners. In the end, there were less than 800 of these captives, and the rest died in the breakout and suppression, and the rest were all taken prisoner again and escorted further west, that is, the endless "west of the world" desert, where legend has it that some people saw some people of different peoples, who looked and dressed completely differently from the people of the native continent.

And now their "outcasts" of the Winter Kingdom, who have less than 800 people, are being escorted by a 500-strong hare mercenary group to the direction of the desert.

"Don't pretend to be dead!" The leader of the hare mercenary group snatched the long rattan from the municipal officer's hand, and jerked at the guy who fell unconscious!

The city magistrate was also very hot and uncomfortable, and he ordered the head of the hare mercenary group to keep the group of captives going, while he asked the few guards around him to take out some fruit and water and stay at the back of the group.

"It's so hot, that dead old man Tyre is really going to throw trouble at people, what is there to open up in this vast desert!" the magistrate took out a bunch of grapes from one of his subordinates' bags, but unfortunately the bunch of grapes that had been green had begun to dehydrate and shriveled and turned a dull yellow. But in this place, not to mention the fruit, even the water is difficult to see, he didn't say anything, and stuffed all the grapes into his mouth, so that the people around him would not watch him swallow saliva.

The captives in the ranks, all with supplies in their hands, were being escorted to a stronghold in front of them. The westernmost city on the continent is the Endless City of the Republic of Marver, and to the west of the Endless City is this endless desert, where there are no human beings, and there are no buildings or villages. The mayor of the small town did not want to come out and suffer with him, so he only offered some water to the hare mercenary group and the consul who was in charge of escorting the captives, and then did not look at them again.

The team's destination was twelve kilometers west of Endless City, where a fortress was still under development. The Senate intended to build a medium-sized fortress in that place to store materials for land reclamation. If it is found that the underground in that place can be excavated, it may be possible to dig up an underground space to store some food that will not spoil due to the heat.

The leader of the hare mercenary regiment also walked to the back of the group, and when he saw two of his subordinates fanning the city magistrate, he also squeezed over and said, "My lord, how long do we have to go?"

The magistrate had one of his subordinates show a map of all the cities close to the desert, while to the west was a sign of yellow sand, and some of the places where alien nations had once appeared.

"I guess it'll be an hour's walk to get there," the magistrate said, after reading the map a few times, and then changing his words, "it might be right away, for it stands to reason that we've come so far that someone should come to meet us." ”

Leader of the Hare Mercenary Regiment: "Could it be that the stronghold that has been cleared of the wasteland is still garrisoned?"

"That's right, there should be about a hundred people, the guys from the Senate told me that this supply fortress has been under construction for several years, but the work is slow because the wind and sand can sometimes be very severe. ”

The leader of the Hare Mercenary Regiment suddenly felt that he was really lucky, because those who lived and worked in this place must have done a lot of bad things in their previous lives to have this kind of retribution.

Their team continued on, but it was desert and desert in front of them, until the fortress stronghold in the desert appeared in front of them.

The strongholds of the desert fortress are mainly made of wood, and in order to keep out the wind and sand, the crevices are stuffed with grass and cloth to make a simple barrier.

The mercenaries of the two hare mercenary groups were the first to push open the door of the stronghold, and found that there was no one guarding inside.

"Report to your lordship, this stronghold is empty!" the leader of the hare mercenary group asked his men to search every corner of the fortress, but found nothing but some construction materials.

"What about food, what about storing water, what about daily necessities?"

"It's all gone!

The city magistrate ordered the mercenary group to crush the captives into the stronghold, and he began to suspect that the alien people in the desert were responsible. It's just that in such a harsh environment, there is no way to send a crow messenger to the Senate, and if you want to inform the people in the rear, you can only go back on foot.

Just as the city magistrates were contemplating the strange situation in front of them, the sand they were standing on began to shake unusually.

All the mercenaries and captives felt the unusual tremors of the desert beneath their feet, the sand began to shake regularly, and the sand in one of the strongholds was slowly seeping down.

The mercenary standing on it screamed and ran out, and everyone present did not know what was going to happen, and even the Kingdom infantry captives who were not afraid of death began to feel fear, because all fear stemmed from the unknown, and they were watching the unknown with their own eyes.

"Quick, get to the heights!" the leader of the hare mercenary group ordered all the mercenaries to move to the higher part of the fortress, and the mercenaries immediately took out their weapons and began to be on guard.

The captives threw their supplies on the ground, some of them followed the mercenaries to higher places, while others hid inside buildings.

The magistrate, escorted by the guards, entered a room and observed from the inside where the quicksand was descending.

The place that kept going into the quicksand was sinking deeper and deeper, like a big mouth in the ground, devouring the yellow sand.

"My lord, there's something here!" said one of the more daring guards, who didn't go far, and when he noticed that the quicksand had slowed down, he walked over to look.

Suddenly, a huge tongue shot out of the sand, engulfing the guard and sucking it into the quicksand. No one could see what it was, but after a while, the monster that "came out" of the quicksand could see it clearly.

Hippopotamus-like limbs, frog-like tongues, and huge two-man bodies, the muddy monster was devouring the guard into the stomach. The monster's mouth was holding the guard's upper body, and the guard's legs were still kicking, but from the monster's mouth and tongue was secreting some cyan mucus, which dissolved the guard's body in a very short time - it was an extremely corrosive liquid!

"Quick, quick, arrow!" shouted the leader of the hare mercenary group, and the mercenaries immediately woke up from their fear, raised their bows and arrows, and fired.

The monster had no eyes, or rather degenerated, and its skin was so tough that no matter how much an arrow could shoot at it, it wouldn't hurt it.

The magistrate noticed that quicksand had begun to appear where he was standing, and the entire fortress was shaking together, as if countless of these monsters were about to emerge from the ground!

The monster that had eaten the guards licked its mouth with its long tongue, and some blood and cyan slime dripped to the ground, causing all the Winter Nation captives to tremble with fear.

A captive on the verge of collapse held a stone in his hands and threw it at the monster, but the monster opened its mouth larger than the gate of the stronghold, and slipped down from the top of the captive, swallowing the stone into its stomach. Everyone could clearly see that the guard who had just been eaten had been digested to the point that there were no bones left.

In the far reaches of the stronghold were two naked men, their skin and hair white, but their eyes were pale pink.

One of them covered his eyes with his hands and looked very photophobic.

"They're going to have a full meal. ”

"yes, Arashi, we'll pick up those interesting things in a minute. ”

"Okay, brother!"