Chapter 493: The Fourth Lock
"What's wrong?" Ao asked, confused.
Shao Xuan told him about the situation on the other side of the sea, the past winter was indeed too weird, and the situation on both sides of the sea turned out to be two diametrically opposite extremes!
When one side was almost freezing, the other side was so hot that I didn't even want to wear the thinnest animal skin clothes.
After listening to Shao Xuan's story about the situation over there, Ao also pondered, the situation over there that Shao Xuan said was much worse than the situation they had on the other side of the river at the beginning.
Something went wrong, and no one was at ease, although they had thought about many situations at the time and were worried, but they were not as shocked as they are now.
"Anyway, it's good that the weather doesn't change, and if it's hotter here this winter, it's always good to prepare in advance. "The weather is hot and the weather is inconvenient, the plants have lost their original growth laws, the habits of the beasts in the mountains and forests have been broken, and if they want to have a good harvest, they have to prepare a few more hands.
However, after all, there is still nearly half a year to go, so let's solve the current matter first.
The team rested in place for three days, and they couldn't stay here forever, food and water access has always been a big problem, and if it continues, the situation will not get better, but it will get worse.
Let a few fierce beasts help carry some of the wounded and sick, and Ao also takes some people on their backs, no matter how poor their energy is, they are much better than these people who have come back all the way.
Even if the current situation is not good, everyone is happy, and when people are happy, there is motivation.
Shao Xuan asked the sapphire control beetles to follow behind, lying in ambush underground, not letting them surround them, which would scare away the desert beasts that came out at night. I didn't want to encounter it before, but it was because I was in trouble, and now I am short of food, so I can solve one by one!
So, when a huge scorpion came out, the people in the ranks. The eyes were green, as if they could shine. The big scorpion, which was originally murderous and rushed out of the sand, felt the stronger murderous aura rushing towards his face, and even stiffened the action of hooking his tail, and then turned around and wanted to run.
Whoosh whoosh -
Dozens of people jumped out of the team in a row, and they didn't give the scorpion a chance to escape.
Gui Yan and the others want to show off in front of the brother tribe. Shouting: Let's come, you guys quickly stand back, let us come! You guys rest first, we should be here to entertain!
Duokang and others on the other side: No, really no, we can do it ourselves! I haven't hunted for so long, and my hands are itchy.
One scorpion was not enough to score at all, and the few fierce beasts in the team failed to show their skills, and they came with them like soy sauce this time. When I went into the desert, I was robbed of the limelight by the beetle, and when I went out, I couldn't grab the slightest opportunity.
Most of the time, the team waited for the sun to become less intense before they started to travel, and then found a place to rest before the sun came out.
With such a large team, it is impossible to go unnoticed all the time.
In fact, when the people of Yanjiao entered the desert, the scattered scouting people in Yanling City wanted to monitor, but they encountered the insect tide and did not follow closely. I just sent someone to report to the top and keep a few points. To prevent these tribesmen from coming to rob them again, if the young master hadn't received all the important things in advance, I'm afraid those tribesmen would have grabbed more.
During the desert melee, there were many tribesmen who took advantage of the chaos to grab metal weapons, and the people in the desert had the deepest impression of the tribesmen, so. As soon as they saw a team of nearly a thousand people entering the desert, they were all on guard, although there were tribesmen coming before, there had never been such a large number, and there were a few fierce beasts among them!
Now the movement of the team has been detected. I didn't see the insect tide again, so I just watched it. It's a pity that there is also a difficult white bird on the side of Yanjiao, so it is also very difficult to monitor in the air, and they can only keep a distance from Yanjiao's team to follow, but ...... Why did the people in Yanjiao suddenly increase so much?! This made them directly raise their vigilance from the beginning to the highest level of vigilance, when did such a huge team suddenly appear on the desert? Could it be that several scattered forces were gathered?!
No, we have to report the latest information quickly.
The people on the Yanjiao side also knew that there were people watching nearby, but it was difficult to catch people, and they didn't have the energy to deal with those people now, so they just wanted to leave the desert quickly. As long as those people don't come to provoke them, they don't want to spend their energy fighting.
"Hey, look over there!" the Flamehorn warrior, covering his head in the sun, looked at the sand dunes not far away.
On the long sand dunes over there, there are creatures walking around on the sand ridges.
Seeing those, most of the people in the team wanted to rush forward with knives and slaughter them, but they were stopped by Shao Xuan.
If they are stopped by others, they will have ideas, after all, it is rare to come across such good food, how can it be worthy of this luck if it is not slaughtered and eaten?
But it was Shao Xuan who stopped them, whether it was on this side of the sea or in the tribe on the other side of the sea, Shao Xuan's status was very special, although it was said that his status in the tribe was second only to Wu and the leader, but his influence was definitely more than those two, especially after experiencing this incident of crossing the sea, no one in the team of Yanjiao could directly refute Shao Xuan's words, and whoever refuted would be beaten by others.
Therefore, after Shao Xuan stopped them, the people who rushed over with knives turned around and ran back obediently. Shao Xuan stopped them, it wouldn't be without reason.
Shao Xuan raised his hand to cover the scorching sun above his head, looked at the long line of camels on the sand ridge, and showed a big smile on his face. I really don't know how this group of camels survived in the desert until now, and gathered such a large group safely.
"Mud! I'm still alive!"
Yes, among the group of camels walking on the sand ridge, the guy with a white face, two white short ears, and long dark brown fur on the front of the curved neck and the hump was the camel that Yang Sui gave to Shao Xuan.
The high temperature distorted the picture he saw, Shao Xuan covered the sun on his head, and looked at the "mud" walking in front of the camel herd with his head slightly up. It was facing the wind and sand, and it was walking towards them with a herd of camels.
"Aung Aung—"
"Mud" screamed twice, and the long hair on his head fluttered in the wind, as if he was greeting Shao Xuan.
Hearing Shao Xuan shouting "mud", Tuo and Lei also remembered the origin of the camel and explained it to others.
When Shao Xuan left Fallen Leaf City, he couldn't take "mud" with him. So he let it go, and only around its neck hung a bag of animal skins filled with water, and now, the animal skin bag was long gone, and the mouth of the bag was open, and the body of the bag was tattered. There are also obvious signs of grinding bites.
If it weren't for the animal skin bag, Shao Xuan wouldn't have been able to recognize it in the first place.
Seeing "Mud" walking next to the big beetle, Shao Xuan could feel that Sapphire seemed to be very familiar with this camel, so he speculated that Mud, these camels, were able to roam peacefully in the desert when there was war until now, and it should be Sapphire who helped. After all, when encountering a bug tide, many people will not think about anything else. It's better to run first, how can you still have the heart to hunt camels?
"Let's go?" Shao Xuan patted Mud's neck. Although he still looks thin, he is very energetic. It's a great blessing to be alive.
"Aang—"
Shao Xuan didn't know whether it was accepted or rejected by the sound of "ang", he let several warriors sit on the camelbacks, and was not rejected and rejected, most of these camels should have been raised by people, and later the war broke away from the city of slave owners. before it came out, otherwise the wild camels would not be so easy to touch.
"Bring the sick and wounded. Let these camels carry them. Shao Xuan fed these camels some water again, and obviously felt that these camels were much closer to them.
With camels to help carry people, it will be easier for everyone in the team.
Sapphire often circled around Shao Xuan, even in the face of Caesar's baring teeth, he always insisted.
Shao Xuan knew what it wanted, after unlocking it for the third time. There are still two locks on this beetle, and there is no slave who doesn't want to be unlocked, and there have been many wars in the desert in the past two years, and Sapphire has been injured several times, if it weren't for the insect influx. It is difficult to avoid those disasters. After all, the insect tide is also a big headache for the slave owners in the desert, especially the Shi family who is now in power, Shi Shu knows that Sapphire is a person on Shao Xuan's side, and he can't let such a threat go in the desert.
Whether it is sapphire, or the insects of the insect tide, they have long been accustomed to the climate and environment of the desert, and they like the sand here, and it will be uncomfortable for them to change places.
So, when he was getting closer and closer to the edge of the desert, Shao Xuan took the sapphire to a sand dune and tried to unlock the fourth lock for it during his rest time.
After Shao Xuan left the desert, he didn't know when he would come to the desert again, and if he could unlock it successfully, it would also give this beetle an extra chance to save his life.
Unlocking the fourth lock consumes more power, and the power of the totem and the power of inheritance have been lost a lot, fortunately, after Shao Xuan landed these days, the depletion state of crossing the sea has recovered most of it, plus when he trained the power of the bone ornament before, the control of the two powers is more accurate, and unlocking the fourth lock on the sapphire body, although it is not easy, but fortunately, it succeeded in the end.
After unlocking the fourth lock, the sapphire sank under the sand, and Shao Xuan could feel that this time, it might have to sleep for a long time. The fourth lock is obviously much more difficult than the third lock, this is a hurdle, Shao Xuan can only help it unlock it, as for what happens in the future, it can only rely on Sapphire himself.
As the sapphire sank into the sand, no other beetles reappeared, and even for a long time, no more insect tides were seen in the desert. Of course, that's a story for later.
On the fourth day after unlocking the Sapphire, the team finally made it out of the desert.
The team decided to rest around the Rain Tribe and get some food to eat first.
When Yang Sui received a report from the people of the Rain tribe and heard that there was a large team approaching the Rain tribe, he was very worried, worried that the people in the desert would attack the Rain tribe, but looking at it, he found that it was not a slave owner, and there were several familiar faces in front of the team.
Yang Sui's heart was slightly relieved, his face also eased, with a smile in his eyes, when he saw the group of camels following the team, Yang Sui recognized the "mud" at the front of the camel herd, and the smile in his eyes was even bigger, but soon, the smile in his eyes turned into surprise, and then shock.
, there were only 1,000 people when I went, how did I change so much when I came out!What happened in this world?!(To be continued......
PS: I have a question for all of you, I am not good at Chinese, and I suddenly realized a problem when I wrote here: is it a "peak" camel, or a "one" camel, or a "head" camel, or a "horse" camel? (If you make a mistake, I'm afraid of misleading the students, so I'll change it if I understand it.) )