Chapter 264: Drinking Water and Thinking of the Source
An intermittent sound came from not far away, and Wan Xiao's heart was full of doubts, couldn't it be that even the water for the residents could not be supplied here?
But at the moment, Wan Xiao's idea is obviously why not eat minced meat, not to mention the feasibility of the idea of taking space to stop filling water, considering that this border is extremely climate changing, Wan Xiao should not have such a solution.
Wan Xiao temporarily retracted his whimsical idea and looked at who was asking for water on the side of the road. Some, as expected, was a ragged ...... Middle aged!? But looking at the vicissitudes of life in the corners of his eyes, he must have endured the heat and coldness of the world, to be honest, with his physical strength, he can use his own labor to obtain his own food and dignity, seeing that he has no disability, Wan Xiao's original pity in his heart is less.
Of course, in the eyes of ordinary people, Wan Xiao just glanced at him, and then left blindly.
"Childe, Childe, I need water, I'm dying of thirst, can you give me some water?"
A touch of heaviness suddenly stopped on Wan Xiao's ankle, Wan Xiao suddenly tightened the strength of his legs, and his calf muscles quickly tensed. At that moment just now, as long as the man showed a trace of aggressive intent, Wan Xiao's whip leg would be whipped up without hesitation, for Wan Xiao, killing people can be in a state of mind, let alone hurting people?
"Uncle, this is a pot of water, drink it quickly!" With a somewhat eager female voice coming from behind him, Wan Xiao looked back, wasn't that Lin Yuan, who fell not far behind Wan Xiao!
After sorting out the dust that did not exist on his body, Wan Xiao looked at the man lightly, at this time, he could be said to be extremely respectful to take the cowhide kettle in Lin Yuan's hand, kowtowed to Lin Yuan, and said again and again.
"A good man has a safe life, and a good man has a safe life. ”
"It's okay, it's okay, uncle, drink it quickly!" Lin Yuan, a girl who has not been deeply involved in the world, how can she stand such a worship from her uncle? Naturally, she refused again and again.
Watching the tattered uncle thirsty and greedy sucking the cowhide kettle in his hand, Lin Yuan's heart can be described as both excited and regretful, excited by the uncle's thanks, regretful that he didn't hand him water in the first place.
"Let's go, Lin Yuan. Wan Xiao's voice had already come far ahead, Lin Yuan looked into the distance, Wan Xiao and Huang Shengdi had already walked away, and Li Gui, who had always claimed to love her the most, was also a few meters away from her, which made Lin Yuan full of doubts.
As soon as he left within two steps of the tattered middle-aged man, Wan Xiao's transmission immediately reached Lin Yuan's spiritual sea.
"Don't act too unusual, that person is a spy for the enemy. ”
A few fluttering words made Lin Yuan's pupils shrink, this is simply incredible, isn't that just an ordinary person?
Quickly keeping up with the pace of Wanxiao Yellow Holy Land, and turning two street corners in a row, Lin Yuan asked Wanxiao through spiritual power transmission.
"Brother Wan, how do you know he's a spy?"
Wan Xiao's body paused slightly, but he quickly returned to normal, and glanced at Lin Yuan with a little meaning and said.
"Just now when you handed him water, he showed an almost fanatical desire, as if it could save his life, but it turned out obviously not, a ragged, unclothed Hanako would only need water? Isn't he short of food? If you look at his face a little more, it's not the withered yellow of a hungry man at all. ”
Lin Yuan seriously recalled that he had indeed only handed the man water, and he was very happy, but was food easier to obtain than water?
"Brother Wan is right, you are just too careless, but it's okay, these are all things we can deal with. Li Zhengzhi patted Lin Yuan's shoulder and said comfortingly.
"Yes, we're a team!" Surprisingly, Huang Shengdi grinned and said with a smile.
"Haha, yes, we are the invincible Wanxiao Squad!" Wan Xiao also added with a smile after hearing this.
The group quickened their march, and after a while, they saw a more imposing building, which was a newly built large arch made of stones, and on the forehead of the door was a square stone, on which only the word "army" was written, revealing a serious and cold atmosphere, which made people shudder.
Wan Xiao could see at a glance that this military character was left by a musician, and the powerful power of the sound pattern had already been carved into the stone, coupled with the perennial battle, the power of the sound pattern was also contaminated with bloodthirsty attributes, so there was such an effect. 56
On both sides of the arch are long walls of stone stacked neither high nor low, and the walls are pitted, and at first glance, it seems that there is no time to polish them finely.
At the door were four straight and handsome soldiers, dressed in light armor and holding a black spear, with serious and cold faces, adding a bit of coldness to the already serious atmosphere.
I swallowed my saliva involuntarily, although it was not the first time for Wan Xiao to enter the barracks, but every time he entered, he would have different feelings, but thinking that he was on a mission, he straightened his back and walked towards the four soldiers with their heads held high.
"Military stronghold, no traffic!" A hoarse male voice came from the mouth of a soldier, and it seemed that he should be the leader of the team among them!
"Hello, we are the musicians sent by the Heavenly Spirit Academy to support Stone Desert City, and we hope to let them go. Wan Xiao hugged his fist at him and said.
"Please show your Celestial Spirit Tokens. The soldier heard that the four of Wan Xiao were the sound masters of the Heavenly Spirit Academy, and his tone softened slightly.
"Look. Wan Xiao handed over his Heavenly Spirit Token, which had Wan Xiao's exclusive number on it.
I saw that the soldier skillfully took out a small magnet-like thing from his pocket, sucked it towards the Heavenly Spirit Token, nodded and returned it to Wan Xiao.
Seeing this, Lin Yuan and the three of them also handed the Heavenly Spirit Token to the soldiers, and the soldiers also tested the adsorption one by one, Wan Xiao felt clearly, when the Heavenly Spirit Token was adsorbed on the magnet, there would be a weak sound pattern power feedback from the magnet, this should be the way to test!
"Hello, welcome to our military base in Stone Desert City!" The soldier saluted Wan Xiao with a fist and said in a sonorous voice.
"Thank you!" Wan Xiao and the four of them hugged their fists and thanked them, and at the same time asked the location of the soldier's headquarters, and then walked towards the interior of the base.
I can't see anything outside, and when I get to the inside of the base, Wan Xiao knows what it means to be well-trained, not far from Wan Xiao's left hand, there is a large open space, a thousand commanders are leading the infantry to practice, and the stern scolding Wan Xiao can hear it clearly, it should be caused by a recruit who did not complete the stabbing in a fixed direction.
Looking at the right-hand side again, there is also a large open space, the open space is indeed full of military equipment, the same is a commander demonstrating the use of each instrument, there is also an archery place in front of the oblique, a row of archers are practicing archery, the purpose is to shoot the head of the straw man in front, and a row of soldiers who are doing push-ups behind the archers against the scorching sun, the climate of the border has a great temperature difference between day and night, and it is so cold at night that you want to wear cotton clothes, and you want to wear silk clothes when it is hot at noon, and the changeable temperature is a disease-causing disaster for everyone here.
No longer paying attention to the rest of the barracks, Wan Xiao and his party walked inward from the wide road in the middle.
The soldiers outside the arch told them that the command office was located in a tiled room in the center of the barracks, which was the best building in the entire Stone Desert City, and it was the original location of the city lord, but since the royal reinforcements arrived, the city lord took the initiative to vacate the building to the soldiers.
Wan Xiao and his entourage walked along the middle road to the interior, but they saw rows of neatly arranged brand-new tents, also known as curtains, and there was a man who said: In the midst of strategizing, the decisive victory is thousands of miles away, which means making decisions in the big tent, and winning thousands of miles away, which shows the high strategy.
Knowing that the tents in front of them are where the soldiers live, Wan Xiao's steps are also slightly faster, and they have to allow outsiders to enter, once they come here, it is equivalent to throwing their homes to others, how many tents there are several times the number of soldiers, so in terms of intelligence security, Shi Mocheng is still doing a good job.
It made Wan Xiao a little surprised, there are not many soldiers here, because there are more than a thousand tents, and four or five soldiers living in a tent are considered to be the top of the sky, which adds up to more than 5,000 soldiers, and in a battle like this to attack an empire, the number of enemies must be in the tens of thousands.
But Wan Xiao didn't continue to think about it, because the purpose of his coming here was to defend Stone Desert City, and blindly guessing was not in line with the reason of fighting.
The four of them continued to walk for a stick of incense, and finally, Wan Xiao saw a few tile houses, the tile house did not look as grand as Wan Xiao imagined, it was an ordinary tile house, Wan Xiao observed, and his heart was full of doubts.
Because to build a tiled house on this soft sand, the foundation is unstable in the first place, coupled with the bad weather effects of windy, windy and rainy, it is undoubtedly difficult for you to build a decent tiled house.
But the tile house in front of him is different, the ground under his feet is not soft sand, but transitions into a cohesive piece of loess, step on it, and leave a footprint, Wan Xiao saw a slight guess in his heart, maybe not far away, there is a small lake, it should be one of the few desert oases, not to mention building a house on such a land, you can also grow food.
Sure enough, Wan Xiao continued to look inside with the spiritual power in his eyes, and saw patches of withered wheat, Wan Xiao realized that such a harsh climate would not be rich in grain, and he was basically not self-sufficient.
Since the five large tiled houses in front of them belong to two and two symmetrical ones in the center, Wan Xiao and his party easily locked on to the more imposing-looking tiled house in the center.