Chapter 292: Desert Night
There is no need for others to say much, seeing the eyes of these sand slaves, others also know what to do.
This is indeed a good resting place, but you can't take it lightly when resting, and the first thing to guard against is these sand slaves.
There are only a few walls of varying heights, no roofs, and the wind blows dry and dusty, and the temperature plummets as the sky gets darker. Even the three members of the Yanjiao tribe who had adapted to the harsh winter felt goosebumps on their bodies. It's not frozen, but I always feel a chill.
"Eat something first, and then take turns at the vigil. Shao Xuan said.
A piece of bread was broken, and the three of them ate it separately, and ate it with a little jerky and water.
The rest of the team also eats in a similar way, and people from various tribes get together, and at this time, people from their own tribe are naturally much more reliable.
Shao Xuan looked at the camel that followed him, this thing was very smart, and he knew to follow Shao Xuan and avoid others, especially Shanu. At this time, it was chewing on a plant that grew in the corner of the wall that resembled the roots of a dead tree, and ate it with relish.
The sand slaves' eyes swept around the group, and then rested on the mud they were chewing, their eyes glowing with greed.
The one closest to the mud finally couldn't help it. Shanu, who was already dark-skinned, seemed to be dressed in a protective color in the night, holding a sharpened bone spur, like a predator in the night, and rushed out suddenly.
Although his ultimate goal is the camel, the first thing he has to solve is Shao Xuan next to the camel.
There are no other superfluous movements, and one qiē only pursues fast, accurate, ruthless, enough to kill with one hit.
The bone spurs that stretched out carried a scream that broke the wind, if Shao Xuanzhen was pierced, his chest would be directly penetrated, even if he was a totem warrior with strong strength. There is no escape from the fate of being stabbed to death.
There was no fire on Shao Xuan's side, and through the moonlight that shone down, Shao Xuan saw the jagged lines that appeared on this sand slave, which was different from the slave he had seen, when he saw Yan Shuo, the slave over there was exposed with chain-like patterns. Instead of aliasing.
So, these slaves belonged to different slave owners?
The eyes of the Shanu who rushed out reflected the cold moonlight, with a hint of bloodthirsty excitement, as if he wanted to immediately hook off a piece of meat from the other party. Perhaps he felt that he would soon be able to get rid of these superfluous people and monopolize the camel.
Burst!
The sound of the body being pierced was particularly clear at this point.
The expression on the face of the Sanu who rushed out froze. Not only did he not hit his target, but he suffered a sudden sharp pain.
The stone knife with a powerful penetrating power, like a fierce beast, stabbed into Shanu's body. Immediately picked people up lightly.
Bang -
The sani, who was picked up, fell to the ground and lost his breath.
Shao Xuan waved the stone knife in his hand, shook off the blood stains on his body, inserted it into the sand in front of him, and then raised his eyes to look at the group of sand slaves over there.
When a few Shanu saw the people who didn't get up again after landing, they didn't have expressions of surprise and fear on their faces, but just looked at them with curiosity and concern, as if they were reassessing Shao Xuan's combat effectiveness. and the threat of this team.
In the midst of that group of sand slaves, there were several able-bodied people. They weren't as lean as the other Shanu, and there were no other Shanu within two steps of their bodies, so they glanced at the others a few times, and then continued to do their own thing, skewering an unknown creature onto the bone knife and setting it on fire. Because of the limited amount of firewood in this place, the fire that could be lit was not large, and the fire was limited, and some of the meat was not cooked, and they still ate it in large quantities. Some of the animal's internal organs and blood were also brought out during the bite.
"That should be a higher-ranking slave, right?" Tuo asked Shao Xuan.
Shao Xuan nodded, "You sleep first, and I will guard with Lei." ”
Because of such an unfavorable situation, Shao Xuan decided to keep vigil with two people, one to sleep, and then to rest, two people are safer than one person to guard, the threat of these slaves is too great.
No wonder the people of the tribe are so jealous of slaves, they don't take the lives of their companions seriously at all, they don't have to worry too much.
Shao Xuan walked to the sand wall and sat down, there was some sand piled up at the foot of the wall, Shao Xuan stabbed it with a stone knife, and found that he had stabbed something. The tip of the knife picked up some sand, and Shao Xuan saw a white bone, and the first thing that was exposed was the skull.
The evening breeze blew the sand away, revealing more and more parts of the skull.
Shao Xuan looked at a crack in the skull, it seemed to be injured by a sharp weapon, it was not stabbed by Shao Xuan with a knife just now, this crack on the skull has been stored for a long time.
After taking a closer look at the wound on the skull, Shao Xuan picked the skull to Lei, "Take a look." ”
Lei Zheng stared at the side of the sand slave viciously, who had more ruthless eyes than those sand slaves, and when he heard Shao Xuan's words, he retracted his gaze, caught the skull that he picked up, and was not afraid of these, so he took it in his hand and looked at it carefully.
Having been hunting since childhood, Ray knows a lot about the wounds caused by beasts, and can distinguish between those that are man-made and those that are injured by other beasts. Seeing the long crack on the skull, Lei's eyes flashed, and his sense of vigilance became stronger. He no longer focused all his attention on the Shanu, but set aside a part of his attention to the surroundings.
Compared to the rest of the team, the people of Yanjiao knew the least about this desert, after all, they didn't have an elder to tell them specifically, so they could only judge by their own experience. You don't have to expect people from other tribes in the team to tell you much, at this time, they must be the first to care about the people of their own tribe, and they won't pay more attention to Shao Xuan's side, let alone make other stories.
The wound on the skull was a claw wound by an animal, and it was extremely fast and sharp. The beast that killed the man may not be very large, but the beast that can attack quickly and fiercely must be guarded against.
From the bone quality of this skull, it can be seen that the strength of the deceased before his death was at least the level of a junior totem warrior, maybe higher, anyway, he had to be more careful.
Because Qu Ce and the others were curious, Shao Xuan threw the skull over and asked them to take a closer look.
Shao Xuan and the three of them took turns to keep vigil, and the others were similar, and Shanu had also attacked them, but it was more like a temptation, one by one, and then picking up the most important attack.
The fire was quickly extinguished because there was no more wood to add to it, and only the moonlight cast from the sky. Some people in warm regions are not used to the cold, who are wrapped in two layers of animal skins at this time.
Several elders looked at the people in the team, and finally their eyes fell on the three people of the Yanjiao tribe, as the first time to participate in this kind of long journey, the three people of Yanjiao were the fastest to adapt.
The night passed in temptation and fighting. Every once in a while, there was always a sound, perhaps the sound of staggered knives, or the movement of being slashed and slashed.
There is more and more blood around them, and some insects living under the sand are attracted by the blood, crawl out, suck the flesh in the sand, and if they can't eat enough, they will target other creatures.
Shao Xuan could always hear the sound of camel hooves stomping on the ground, and when he looked over, several camels had been trampled to death at their feet, and then, the camel ate all these insects.
Shao Xuan didn't know if other camels were more like this, but this one didn't seem to be taboo, and it was both meat and vegetarian. It's good and easy to raise.
The next day, when the sun came out, the Shanu had already left, and the dead Shanu was left behind, and after a while, it was a white skeleton again. (To be continued......)