Chapter 70: The Dying Child
On the outer edge of the Chiabis Desert is a golden trade route that stretches for millions of miles.
This golden trade route carried the trade between the royal capital and the four continents, because the royal capital has been a place favored by the gods since ancient times, and it is very rich, and there are many rare and exotic fruits.
The economy is developed, and all kinds of handicrafts and daily necessities are also incomparable to the outside world, so in order to obtain the precious goods of the royal capital, merchants from the four continents opened up this golden trade route on the periphery of the Chiabis Desert.
It was built through the blood and sweat of many generations, and it was a passage between it and the royal capital.
The road wraps around the edge of the Great Desert, where there are several special markings on it.
These signs are so vague and even so well hidden that they would not have been possible to find them if they were not for the people who were frequent traders around the desert.
The marked place means that when you enter the Great Desert from here, as long as you follow a certain direction and move in a straight line towards the royal capital, you can avoid the deadliest trap in the desert.
Moreover, skilled merchants will observe the celestial phenomena at any time, choose the time when the temperature is closest to the normal temperature between the alternation of day and night in the desert, and hurry into the desert.
That is to say, when the weather during the day drops to the range that the human body can bear, the caravan enters the great desert from the marked place, and then the desert guide who is familiar with the road leads the team to the royal capital from the nearest road.
Try to enter the royal capital before the temperature drops to minus ten degrees in the evening, so that as long as it is not carrying special goods, ordinary people and goods will not be harmed.
Conversely, when the temperature in the desert rises above minus ten degrees in the early hours of the morning, it is the same to hurry out and rush to the royal capital before the desert temperature rises to a scorching enough during the day.
As for why the mark is tightly hidden, it is because the great desert is a natural protective barrier for the royal capital. No way to enter the desert must be discovered by the enemy or by spies from other countries, otherwise the safety of the royal capital would be endangered.
In the early morning of January 15 of the new year, there was still a long time before dawn, and a large elven caravan began to get busy.
They are led by several agile flying elves, who are desert guides who stay around the desert all year round and are very familiar with the road.
Generally, the caravans are composed of elves with relatively fast movements, or demonic beasts with strong tolerance, and it is impossible to be humans, because the fragile bodies and abilities of human beings are simply unable to cross the great desert in a short time.
If you walk on your feet alone, you have to walk through the entire desert, and you can't walk through it for a few months. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for humans to trade here.
The leader of the elven caravan is a male elf named Isitab, who is an out-and-out flying elf, who is over 200 years old and belongs to the elderly elf.
Although their ability is limited, and they only have second-rank spiritual mana, since their family has lived on the edge of the desert for several generations, their familiarity with the desert is almost unmatched, so the entire caravan is subject to his opinion.
And for many years, he always gave the goods and money he got to the poor unconditionally, so everyone was willing to work hard with him and listen to his command.
While everyone was busy, Isittab spread his wings and flew slowly around the desert very closely.
He was feeling the temperature changes in the desert in order to find the most suitable time to start.
Behind him, followed by two young flying elves. Isitab has not been in good health in recent years, so he brings his family's heirs with him every time he travels, hoping that they will learn all his experience as soon as possible and can take responsibility for himself.
"Taya, you have to pay attention to the direction of the wind, not with your eyes but with your wings, we have to fly with the wind now. ”
"Yes, I see. The young elf flying to his left replied and began to try to glide with the wind like Isitab.
The three of them rarely spoke along the way, and only after Isittab noticed their shortcomings would they say a word or two.
Their eyes are always fixed on the area around the desert, looking for the signs hidden within.
Just as he was flying over a desert section that few people usually pass, one of the young elves suddenly exclaimed, flapped his wings and flew downward.
Isittab was stunned for a moment, then he saw what was in the desert, and he motioned for the other young elf to stop, and the one who waited down picked up the desert contents.
After a while, the elf who had fallen to the ground picked up a gray-white package and returned to the two of them.
When he opened the package, Isitab's face changed, and he urgently called to the two elves next to him, saying, "Hurry!
"Yes!"
The three of them sprinted back to the camp as fast as they could, like arrows from the string.
The condition of the child they found was indeed very dangerous, and it is not known who abandoned it on the edge of the desert.
Due to the effects of the bad weather and hunger and thirst, the child was bruised, his lips were chapped, and he was almost out of vital signs.
Fortunately, it is a child of the elf clan, and if he is treated in a short time, he will not die.
Just as Isitab and the others had left with their children in their arms, a small cloud of sand and dust rose from behind a sand dune in the Great Desert, and a figure of almost the same color as the desert quickly disappeared in the opposite direction to them.