Chapter 22: The Desert of Lapaz

"Woo~ It's so hot, this ghost sun..."I grumbled as I walked. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Now the group of five of us has walked out of the Black Forest and arrived in the desert area of the province of Lapaz. The desert is so endless that there is yellow sand everywhere, and we can't see anything but a few cacti, and the sun scorches our bodies like fireballs. Originally, Link also brought 3 sets of robes and headscarves from the village and put them in the luggage, so that we could be more comfortable in the desert, but after Anne and Emma joined in, they had to take care of them, so they let out two sets, and one set was given to the youngest Neil, who had a hat of his own, and finally the headscarf was given to Link to wear, and I had nothing, and I wore a dark dress exposed to the ghost sun, and I was about to dry my human flesh. Alas, there are girls here, but you can't be ashamed, and you have to hold on to the nearest oasis. (Note: Wearing a robe, especially a white robe, can absorb external heat while forming a ventilation pipe inside, and the air circulates from the bottom up, like a chimney, making the human body feel cool.) As for the headscarf, it plays the role of a hat, shades the sun during the day, and keeps warm at night, which is a must-have equipment in the desert. )

At this time, Anne was walking side by side with me, and asked with concern, "Chris, is it hot? Can you hold on? Do you want to drink saliva?"

I immediately smiled and said to her, "No problem, this little heat is nothing to me, just sweating more and losing weight." ”

Anne smiled when she heard this, and Link, who was behind me, supported her right hand with her left hand, pinched her chin with her right hand, and said thoughtfully, "Is this the so-called slapping a swollen face and making a fat man?" After speaking, Emma next to her laughed.

Cut, it's going to be trick-or-treating, ruining my image!" I glared at Link angrily and continued walking.

"Actually, Chris, there's a way to cool you down, I wonder if you'd like to give it a try?" Neil said next to him.

"Oh, and this kind of good thing, okay, what is the solution?" I was overjoyed, but I asked with a pretended indifference on my face.

"You just close your eyes and take a defensive position. Neil said.

"Is that so?" I did as Neil said, clasping my hands over my chest and closing my eyes.

"Wait a minute, don't open your eyes, it'll be right away!" Neil's voice grew farther and farther away.

After waiting for half a minute, there was no movement. Why isn't it okay? Neil won't be playing tricks on me, is he? I was about to open my eyes when I suddenly heard a "water polo!" It was too late, and then it was too late, and a ball-sized ball of water hit me, knocking me back several steps, and my hands were numb from my chest.

"Woo~" I couldn't help grinning in pain, when Neil, who had a wicked smile on his face, came running up to me from far away and said, "How's it going?"

Now I'm wet, and there are still some ice crystals left on my body, which is indeed cool, but I have also suffered a lot of sin. Neil, this kid made me look ugly in front of everyone more than Link, and now not only Emma and Annie, but even Link, who usually doesn't smile, grinned.

I was annoyed and angry, how could I treat my brother like this? I dragged him over, locked his throat behind his back, and said in a weird way: "Then thank you so much, I'm much cooler now, and my heart is also cold!Neil~" At this time, Neil was out of breath by my lock, and kept struggling, but it had no effect, which made the laughter of the three people around him even more happy...

Afterwards, Neil apologized to me (the apology was not sincere enough, but I don't remember the villain, so my brother will let my brother go). Speaking of which, the scholar who usually reads seriously is now a lot more cheerful, and he will use crooked ideas to trick me, so it's not bad to go out on a trip, otherwise he will become a nerd), and we walked to the end of the evening, the weather finally cooled down, and the sun was about to set. Following Link's route, you should be able to reach the oasis after walking a little further.

There are no big cities in the province of Lapaz, only small towns built around oases. In such a vast desert area, there are only four oases in total, which are distributed in four directions: southeast, north, west, and north. We set out from the Black Forest, of course, to find the nearest southern oasis, if we walked slowly, the desert was very cold at night, and we didn't have tents, so we had to freeze half to death if we slept in the open air.

"Ah, there's an oasis!" said Anne, as if she had spotted our destination, pointing to the left front.

We walked some distance further, well, it was indeed an oasis, and we could see people walking by the water's edge. Whew~ It's finally here, and I'm relieved.

Neil looked at the compass and said, "No, the Southern Oasis should be directly in front of us, if it is this oasis, it is in front of us on the left, a lot of off, and the direction is not right?"

"It could be a mirage. Link stepped forward and said, "This is a natural phenomenon, a virtual image formed by the refraction of light reflected by an object through the atmosphere. ”

"Then it's fake, it looks so realistic, how can we tell if it's a real oasis? It's too far to walk over. Emma wiped the sweat from her face and sighed.

"I have a way of discerning. Link pulled out his long sword from his waist, took a few steps forward, jumped high, held the sword in both hands, and slashed left and right in the air. "Flying Swallow Slash Wind!"

"Huh!" Suddenly, a sword wind flew forward quickly, and Emma said suspiciously, "Nothing has changed ahead?" Link said quietly, "Let the sword wind fly for a while." Sure enough, after a while, the oasis was split into two parts, looming in the distance.

"Fake. Link turned his head and set off for his real goal, leaving us two men and two women looking at his back with their mouths wide open... This is also too bullish, such a long distance, change the flow of the air flow through the sword wind to confirm whether it is a mirage, although this move is not lethal, but it can hit so far away, it shows that Link's strength is very strong!

We walked for about ten minutes again, but again something happened, this time it was not a mirage, but we ran into a robber in the desert.

At this time, we were surrounded by a group of people wearing black robes, Dozens of big men wearing black turbans on their heads surrounded them, they were armed with long scimitars, riding on a bird-like creature (I later learned that this creature is called dragon birds, they have no feathers, their skin is rough and hard like a lizard, their wings are small and tucked at the sides of their bodies, they lose the ability to fly, because they have thin and long legs, they can run at high speed, and they have great endurance and rarely drink water, so they are a must-have ride for people in desert areas to travel at home).

Neil, and Link surrounded Anne and Emma in the middle, while all five of us watched them warily with weapons raised.

At this time, one of them spoke: "Little ghosts, you are very young, I guess you are only sixteen or seventeen years old, why did you come here?haha~ We are a sandstorm thief group, and we don't want to hurt you, so hand over all your valuable things and let you go, otherwise, hehe~ You will suffer!"

I grabbed my gun and shouted, "I'm sorry, I think you're going to be disappointed, we're just a group of students passing by, we just want to pass through here, we don't have anything of value on us." ”

At this time, another robber said with a cruel smile: "If you don't have money, you will be tied up and sold, and the man will be a slave, these two chicks look good, white and clean, sell them and become a maid or maid, I think they must be sold for a good price, hahaha~~"

"Is it human trafficking again?" Link muttered to himself beside me, with a hint of anger in his voice, for he hated the fact that many of his Black Elves had been abducted and sold into slavery in other places.

"Hmph, go on a dream, we're not vegetarians either, and you'll be beaten so much that you don't even know your mother. Emma was also angry, her cheeks were so angry that she was puffing out, Danfeng glared, her left hand crossed her waist, and her right hand pointed at the group of robbers and scolded.

"Yo, what a stubborn chick, you have to train well in the future. The bandits laughed even more unscrupulously as they brandished their scimitars.

"Don't talk nonsense with them, let these five little imps suffer first!" one of the bandits, with a bearded face, charged at us on a dragon bird.

"Bang!"

I was about to raise my crossbow to fight him, when I heard a gunshot, and the robber rolled over from the dragon bird and fell down, clutching his belly and moaning in pain on the ground. I looked in the direction where the shots were fired, and at two o'clock we saw two figures riding on dragon birds, one man and one woman, on a small sand dune. The man carried two black machetes crossed behind his back, while the woman held a spear in both hands, and white smoke was emitting from the muzzle. It seems that the bullet that hit the robber just now came from the muzzle of her gun...