Chapter 168: Phantom of the Valley
Li Quyang, the owner of Yanyun Village, was in the middle of his congenital period, his hair was gray, his face was eight points of harmony, he smiled and greeted him, and Xue Tong's anger could not attack for a while.
"Daoist friends and guests, poor Taoist subordinates have many rudeness, and when they learned that the elephant team was about to go, they came to make amends, so as not to fall into resentment and feel guilty."
Li Quyang is alone, tall and big, with a strong breath, as if he is also a congenital monk.
"Oh, not to make trouble." Xue Tongxin said.
A smile appeared on his face, "Where, where is it, a few words of dispute are tried, and the past is over, and the owner's reparation is too serious." ”
Xue Tong's pseudonym Du Guanyuan, using the name of an acquaintance in Wanyu, he guessed that Li Quyang was not simply here to say hello, there must be something else, and immediately said: "The owner of the village invites the Burrow to sit." ”
Li Quyang really had another intention.
"Du Daoyou, there was a missing person in Yanyunzhuang forty years ago, named Yue Shuhua, and there were three volumes of sword scriptures lost at the same time, that thief was not qualified to refine this sword scripture, so he fled after stealing it."
"This kind of thing Yanyunzhuang absolutely cannot tolerate, and has been tracking for more than 20 years, but has failed to catch the thief surnamed Yue, and there are many signs that this person should be hiding in the barbarian area, and the greatest possibility is in the Yubu."
"Daoyou go to the Ministry of Commerce to do business, if there is the whereabouts of this thief, please seek justice for Yanyunzhuang, whether it is to correct the law on the spot or escort to the case, it is all up to Daoyou to act cheaply."
"When I returned, I looked at Yanyunzhuang and thanked him in person!" Li Quyang said.
"I'm afraid Du won't have time to inquire, and the owner's trust may not be able to be completed." Xue Tong had no interest in this kind of, and excused himself.
"It's good for Du Daoyou to keep an eye on it, what happened decades ago, if it can be done, it will be done, and if it can't be done, it will be God's will." Li Quyang said.
"Okay, Du will try his luck, this is..."
"The Guardian of the Seven Evil Alliance, poor Dao friends, please ask Dao friends for help if you have something." Li Quyang introduced.
"Oh, I'm glad I will!" Xue Tong bowed his hand and said politely.
Yan Yi returned the salute and said: "Tang suddenly asked the Taoist chief for help, he was ashamed, the snake and insect were one of his must, if the Taoist saw the golden tumor and the young snake, please bring a few back, this snake is rare, let the Taoist bother, and the Taoist paid a deposit of 50,000 yuan first." ”
"It's only because Du Daoyou is a person with a lot of influence that the two of us took the liberty to come here for convenience, don't mind." Li Quyang explained.
"It's okay, Du Mou try, the same way from the Xuanmen, if you can help, you will help."
"Then we'll wait for good news"
……
After the two left, Xue Tong was quite puzzled, and what the two of them asked for always felt a little weird.
After the mammoth was assembled, two heads in a group, the elephant captain was five miles, except for some of the mammoth trailers full of feed, Xue Tong handed over ten storage bags to Wen Guangmao, filled with sugarcane, artemisia grass, and soybean meal, enough for two hundred mammoths to eat for a year.
Thirty orcs brought back cattle, sheep, linen, and porcelain that Wan Qian had exchanged, while the other two groups gathered 3,000 camels and horses, and the team was even larger.
Xue Tong is the only innate level martial artist in the caravan, and no matter the barbarian human race, he is very satisfied with his existence.
Xiao Yu'er changed into a blue gray windbreaker and wrapped herself tightly, Pei Ling was slightly better, after all, he grew up in the desert area, Pei Yaoxin patrolled back and forth, Wen Guangmao was the busiest, commanding the recruited orcs and human warriors, and keeping the formation unchaotic.
It takes a month to go to the Ministry of Nine Thousand Miles.
Most of the time, Xue Tong spent most of his time in the horned camel cart, tinkering with the blood and bones of beasts, refining the blood pill of the barbarians.
Halfway through the trip, it was nearly dusk.
The caravan is camping in the Gobi, and the camel and horse mammoth are eating forage.
Xue Tong heard a faint rumbling sound.
He fled into the sky and looked northwest into the distance, and under the sunset, hundreds of zhang high, the yellow mantle was advancing in the direction of the caravan.
Dust storm!
The empty wilderness is hit by a sandstorm, and the caravan is very likely to lose ninety percent of its livestock!
Xue Tong's heart was cold, there were very few dust storms in October, but it happened by chance.
He shouted loudly, and the expressions of everyone who heard it changed greatly.
"Quick, go that way!"
More than 20 miles to the southwest, a Gobi barren range, avoiding the valley, or can escape a catastrophe.
For a while, people roared and neighed, and there was a mess.
"Try to stay in formation and go!"
The orc team had the fewest cattle and sheep and rushed to the front, and Xue Tong summoned the vulture storm ape to deter the outside of the mammoth team, trying his best to keep the elephant team in chaos.
He shuttled back and forth, pushing back the mammoth who had left the team in a panic and lost his bearings.
At this time, the rumbling sound rolled closer and closer, and everyone saw the sand and dust that covered the sky in the distance.
When Xue Tong assisted the camel team to drive the last of the horses into the valley, the wind was already howling in his ears, and the sand was hitting his face.
Fortunately, the canyon is leeward, and the main body of the dust storm is coming in a blink of an eye, and you can't see your five fingers, and you can't see each other's faces clearly face to face.
Livestock were frightened, and camels and horses neighed everywhere.
In the rumble of the dust storm, the deafening roar of the tiger was suddenly heard, startling all the crowded and trampled livestock.
Timidly rolling flowed, shivering.
Xue Tong took the white tiger and glanced at it with his golden pupils, he heard a strange sound and rose to the sky.
The bracelet spun sharply and flew out of a plate of four swords.
The four sword shadows of the Dragon Killing Sword Array bombarded towards the huge shadow that fell sharply in front of them.
The Gobi soil and rocks are weathered, which can be described as weak and windless, and a piece of soil and stone larger than three floors was blown down by the dust storm and fell from the air.
The sword array shattered it, and fist-sized earth and rocks rained down.
Rescued more than 10 people from the two races.
But Xue Tong's face changed suddenly!
I saw an extremely vague shadow flashing diagonally behind the clod.
Xue Tong blinked, where was there any unknown object.
"It's impossible for a bird to fly, such a big dust storm has already flown away."
Xue Tong was so stunned that he couldn't imagine what the shadow was doing, he jumped up the earth and stone mountain to inspect it, there was nothing, and the wind blew so hard that he could barely stand on his feet.
The dust storm blew for an hour, and the valley piled up waist-deep sand.
After the count, three mammoths were missing, and the camel team lost about 10% of its livestock.
"Daochang Du saved the horse team, how can we be grateful." The leader of the horse team said.
"Don't worry, this Du should do his best." Xue Tong was full of thoughts, and there was no joy at all.
"Enemy, or am I dazzled and misunderstood"
……
Barbarian tribe, the southern foot of the Gangshan Mountain.
More than 1,000 barbarian households lived in the cottage, forming the largest market town in the Yubu region, and the caravan arrived in a month before the traditional "Gaba Festival".
"Brother Xue, I saw that you were sullen for half a month, and you were thoughtful," Xiao Yu'er asked.
"Well, I'm upset and feel like something's wrong."
"Last time, that canyon Yu'er didn't see anything clearly, as if a huge tiger shadow flew into your pet bag."
"Well, I won't be able to tell for a while."
"That tiger's roar is so terrifying, summon it out to play," Xiao Yu'er said with a hippie smile.
"Now is not the time to play, sell elephants first!"
Xue Tong called the four people and said, "Hurry up and sell elephants, and the three courtyards where you live need to be strengthened for vigilance and protection." ”
……
The elephant team sold more than ten mammoths one after another, ushering in the Gaba Festival.
The market town poured into 3,000 orcs and more than 100 human races.
"The mammoth is 10,000 taels of silver per head, and the spirit stone is 3,000."
Xue Tong handed over more than 20 high-grade magic weapons to Xiao Yu'er and asked her to list them together.
"Buy whatever you want to buy, the snake venom pill of the snake is famous all over the world, the opportunity is rare, if you meet a congenital grade, hurry up and help me buy it."
"This snow silkworm corpse is the best food for snakes and insects, and the four of you will go to these fairs and auctions to make trouble, and 150,000 spirit stones will be sold." Xue Tong saw the dark shadow from the canyon, and everything seemed to be boring.
"Daoist Xue, the barbarian spirit stones are scarce, what if the snake breeder can't take out so many spirit stones," Pei Ling asked.
"Change the mid-congenital stage and above snake pills, two to three, you can master them, if there is no snake pill, you can also change three jars of innate level refining blood pills."
Xue Tong handed Xiao Yu'er 500,000 spirit stones, closed the door, and left after thinking about whether to count them.
He generally felt that the black shadow looked like a person, but he would not be a person from the Xuangu Divine Sect, Dasheng was 16,000 miles away from Binxu, how could such an inconsequential trivial matter as the Trek team spread to the Xuangu Divine Sect so quickly and arouse suspicion.
The chestnut door in his yard suddenly rang.
Two barbarians, calling themselves Udon and Guk.
"It's Du Daochang," Udon spoke fluently.
"It's Du, may I ask..."Xue Tong asked, wondering why someone came to visit.
"We are from the head village of the Ministry of Peace, and we want to buy a hundred mammoths, can we talk about the conditions?"
After selling the mammoth early, it was naturally in line with Xue Tong's current thoughts, and he immediately said: "Oh, of course you can talk about it, what price is the Ministry willing to pay, let's hear it." ”
"Two hundred and fifty thousand spirit stones," Uton said.
"250,000 yuan is not even enough capital, but a large amount of business, the preferential point is also reasonable, 280,000 yuan, and Du has some needs, I don't know if the Ministry can meet them."
Xue Tong handed Uton a slip of paper.
There are seven or eight kinds of snake venomous snake pills, and the last line is the golden tumor and the young snake.
Wu Dun read it and said with a smile: "I said, how can there be a congenital business in Gangshan, it turns out that Du Daochang came prepared, and the things on the list are basically spiritual objects that are only available in the general village." ”
"These spiritual objects are very valuable..."Uton glanced at Xue Tong.
"Du brought some spirit stones, if you can't afford it, pick a few more, if you need a mammoth, the remaining sixty Du is willing to sell them all."
"Okay, Daoist Du is waiting for my news."
……
One of the purposes of Xue Tong's formation of the caravan was to build a bridge with mammoths, mix with the tribes, and gradually buy all the spiritual objects he needed.
Udon came to his door, and he was overjoyed.
Xue Tong didn't know that because of the temporary decision of the head of the three front departments, there was a matter of Uton's visit.
In recent years, the issue of several large-scale installations has been raised many times, but they are all unresolved.
The mammoth caravan caught the attention of Rokita, the clan overseer in charge of the newspaper.
"It takes a lot of manpower and animal power to build a catapult and a crossbow, and the ready-made mammoth is in Gangshan Mountain, so you don't have to buy a lot of trouble in the future, why miss it"
The proposal passed, and Uton and Guli found Xue Tong.
……
"Buying so many spiritual things at one time, will the Yu Department see the intention of making money" Xue Tong thought of the strange shadow in the valley, and became more and more uneasy.
He paced around the courtyard, his shadow slanting in the moonlight.
Suddenly, on the ground glowing with white light, a figure flew by.
Silently, avoiding the warning charm and Xue Tong's perception.
Xue Tong's cold hairs stood upside down!