The Tadam Desert is an inland desert located in the middle of the Ceylon continent, bordered by the Gelqin Grassland to the north, the western city of Valun City to the south, and the Hangai Mountains that stretch for thousands of miles to the north. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is the border of the two great empires of mankind - the Empire of Light and the Kingdom of Macedonia, and there are no people for thousands of miles on weekdays, and even the battlefield will not choose to be in this desert area.

In the 480th year of the Bright Empire, the central part of the empire established the Moxi Province in the vast area south of the desert, and the capital was Valen. Thus began the administration of the western frontier of the empire.

"Tadam" is a steppe language meaning "dry Gobi". Although it is said to be a desert, it is actually less than a third of the desert area, and most of it is a desert composed of coarse sand and gravel.

A man and a woman were trudging through the desert at the moment, startled by the lizards on the side of the road, who were usually uninhabited, sticking out their tongues and staring curiously at the strange man and woman.

These two people are naturally Joseph and Su Ya, and Su Ya is sitting in Jose's garbage truck at this time. A pair of branches were tied to the handle of the carriage with a few ropes and rattans, and it was set up between the two horses, barely forming a rough "carriage".

And Joseph volunteered to serve as a part-time groom, holding the reins of the horse, walking on the Gobi Desert without saying a word.

Back to that night: After a moment of silence, José began to wonder if he had traveled to another world, but would his companions on the ship also have survivors?

And the world doesn't seem to be stable, what should I do next?

Su Ya looked at her "slave" and was silent, she had already guessed a few clues, and since she had believed his words in her heart, her tone was not so cold.

"You can come back to Valen City with me," she said in a flat tone, looking at José, "and at least have a place to settle down when you get out of the desert, so you can make plans again." ”

José listened to her words, thought about it for a while, and had no choice but to agree. After all, Su Ya is more familiar with this place, and she is currently the only one in this world.

After the two discussed, they decided to follow Su Ya's route and go south through the desert, plus the few horses left by the dead steppe people, although the leg strength was greatly improved. But because it was deep in the desert, too far from the border, Suya calculated that it would take more than a month to reach Valen.

The next day, José found the supply cart he had hidden in the bushes, and when he thought of Suya's serious injuries, he took some anti-inflammatory drugs, disinfectants, and bandages.

José took the medicine and explained the purpose to the girl, and Suya did not shirk - her injuries were indeed very serious, and now she was not mentally strong enough to be treated with magic.

After all, it was not convenient for Joseph to stay here while she was cleaning the wound and dressing it, so he gave it to her and walked out into the valley. After Su Ya watched him leave, she cleaned the wound a little and then bandaged it with a bandage. After barely doing all this, Su Ya was already a little pale.

It seems that the injury she suffered this time is indeed very serious, and I don't know if I can recover in the short term, Su Ya thought with some worry. It's just that now he is in a foreign place, and his only companion, José, doesn't know any martial arts, so if he encounters something here, the situation will be very troublesome.

And José has now come to the place where Suya and the steppe people fought yesterday. He looked at the corpses of several steppe people, and couldn't help frowning, covering his nose, and there seemed to be a trace of blood in the dry wind.

But he still had a bright eye—the steppe man's horses were still on the edge of the valley!

Thankfully, a few horses had run away after the night, but there were still two horses left grazing on the sparse grass at the edge of the valley.

José led the remaining two horses back to the valley, thinking that Suya's current physical condition might not be suitable for riding a horse, and after a little thought, he had an idea.

He pushed the garbage truck out, took out the tools on it, and got busy...... After a while, he looked at the "carriage" made of twigs and the ropes he had brought, and then nodded in satisfaction.

Well, although it looks a little simple, it doesn't pay much attention to it in this wilderness, after all, it's good to be practical.

After doing all this, he pulled the carriage in front of Su Ya, "Su Ya...... Your Excellency," Jose touched his nose, "shall we go?"

Su Ya noticed that there were still fine beads of sweat on his face, and her heart couldn't help but move, and her attitude towards the young boy in front of her eased a little.

"You don't need to call me 'Lord Suya', since you are not an outcast, I am not a slave trader. Su Ya tried to make her tone sound as flat as possible, "You just call me Su Ya, let's go." After saying that, he turned around and prepared to get into the car.

José watched the mysterious girl get into the car, shrugged her shoulders, and didn't say anything more. After all, the two are not too familiar, although the relationship is very strange, at least now she is not as cold to herself as she was at the beginning. And I don't know much about the situation in this world, so I need to know a little more.

In this way, the two talked as they walked, and Jose had a general understanding of the world from Suya's mouth. The continent where I live is called "Ceylon Continent", and it is also the only land in this world.

There are several major powers on the continent: the northwest and east of the continent are the kingdoms of humans, while the vast forests of the south are inhabited by beautiful and mysterious elves, and between the elves and northern humans is a vast savage plateau, where the territory of dwarves and orcs is located.

As for the southwesternmost part of the continent, there is a mysterious island, which is said to be the land of terrifying demons, entrenched in powerful and evil lichs and demons, who will wage a terrible evil war against the tribes of the continent every few hundred years.

But it was a disaster that happened only once in a few hundred years, and many people in peacetime did not even know about it, and had only heard of it in legends or heroic tales of troubadours, and seldom believed it.

Humanity is currently divided into two major powers, namely the Empire of Light in the east, and the Kingdom of Macedonia in the northwest. As for the steppe people who chased and killed Su Ya before, they were the Chatai Khanate who lived in the Gelqin steppe.

Relying on the tall and stretching Hangai Mountains and the strong cavalry strength of the steppe people themselves, although sandwiched between the two major forces, the Chatai Khanate did not pose much of a threat. On the contrary, he often took advantage of the war between the two countries to reap some benefits from it.

José wanted to ask about Suya's identity, but she just vaguely said that she was a cavalry commander of the Bright Empire, and she had retreated from the front line, but she was attacked by the steppe people, and she went all the way south to escape back to the border city - Valen City, but she encountered the remnants of the grassland pursuers, and the scene that José saw yesterday happened.

Seeing that she seemed to be deliberately reluctant to mention her identity, Jose only understated the details in it, and probably didn't want to tell herself something, so she didn't delve into it anymore.

After walking like this for several days, he finally returned to the place where José had left the icebreaker, and he felt a little emotional. A few days ago, I went all the way north, who would have thought that not only did I not get out of the desert, but also picked up such a mysterious woman and came back.

However, after a few days of consumption, a lot of materials have been used, especially Su Ya's wounds, which have to be cleaned and medicated every day.

This also made Qiao Se feel a little strange, in the past few days, judging from Su Ya's demeanor, she seems to be really seriously injured. Despite feeling as if she was hiding her injuries, Joseph was vaguely aware of her weakness.

Thinking of Su Ya's reaction after scaring away the grassland people that day, I'm afraid she really supported herself. This thought made Jose unconsciously a little worried, although he had no malicious intentions, but there was still such a long way to go, in case of any accidents on the way, not to mention anything else, it was those few steppe people who noticed that something was wrong, in case they caught up, I am afraid that both of them would be more than lucky.

José shook his head, after all, it was useless to think about this now, he could only take one step at a time. Su Ya now only occasionally talks to herself every day except for eating, and spends almost all the rest of the time sitting in the car with her eyes closed, she should be trying to recover her strength.

In any case, the only way to get out of the desert is to speed up and get out of the desert early.

José quickly parked the carriage in the shade at the stern, and then looked at Su Ya, who had opened her eyes at this moment, her face full of surprise, and smiled bitterly, "Look, this is the boat I am on......"

Su Ya was stunned, it's not that she has never seen such a big ship, in the naval fleet in the southern part of the empire, there are also big ships like this Sea Soul, it's just ...... Oh my God, this huge warship turned out to be made of iron!

She jumped out of the car in disbelief, and despite her own injuries, drew her sword and struck it at the stern.

There was a screeching sound, and the blade of the sword burst into sparks immediately after the hull of the ship, and a shallow scratch appeared on the hull. Sure enough, it was a ship made of iron!

Su Ya was secretly surprised, the hardness of this iron is extremely high, although it is useless to fight with one blow, but this sword is a rare magic weapon, even if it is an iron plate, it can be cut through under one blow. But it only left a scratch on the hull, which shows the hardness of this iron plate and the thickness of the hull!

Jose was even more surprised at this moment, the girl's seemingly easy blow actually cut a scar on the steel plate of the hull!

You must know that the hull of this level of icebreaker is reinforced with alloy steel plates of special materials, although the hardness of the stern is not as good as the bow, but the steel plates can be drawn like this...... Could it be that she has recovered?

However, looking at Su Ya, who was immediately out of breath after the blow, it was obviously because of the anti-shock under gravity that messed up her breath, it seemed that it was because of the strangely shaped sword, but I didn't know what material it was, it was so sharp.

José just wanted to reach out to help Su Ya, who was a little unsteady on her feet, but the girl immediately seemed to be taken aback, hurriedly took a few steps back, and held the sword to stabilize her body, but the girl just gasped slightly, and said to Josse in a somewhat stiff tone: "I don't need your help, I'm fine." ”

Jose was a little stunned, he didn't expect Su Ya to react so much, he just touched the back of his head - it seems that girls from other worlds are quite conservative......

Then he didn't think much about it, just looked at Su Ya helplessly, "Now, you should always believe my words, right?"

“...............”

Su Ya had indeed begun to believe his words, this mysterious boy named "José", the strange things on his body, and the staggering huge iron ship in front of him......

At least Su Ya can be sure that this kind of civilization is by no means something that any country or race on the mainland can master!

Su Ya is not a layman, she thought carefully for a while, and finally nodded.

This strange guy may really be from another country, otherwise how could there be so many incredible things. Just, another unknown country......

Su Ya's heart was naturally extremely shocked, if there really was such a country overseas, judging from this iron ship alone, even with the strength of all the races on the mainland, it would be difficult to reach, right?

It may not be a good thing to have such an overseas power, and I don't know whether it is an enemy or a friend, if such a country covets the mainland......

Su Ya couldn't help but feel nervous, and she couldn't help but be a little suspicious of Jose's slightly relaxed attitude.

Of course, Jose didn't know what the girl was thinking, but he was relieved to see that the girl finally believed in herself.

After stepping onto the ship, José tried to open the hatch and looked at the ground that had fallen with a thin layer of dust, and it seemed that no one had returned these days.

Although I was a little disappointed, I had no choice but to transport as many supplies as possible, after all, such a big desert still has a long way to go.

The next thing is simple, there are a lot of things in the storage room, after all, there are nearly 100 people on board, and the supplies are also very sufficient.

"Which," José looked at Suya hopefully as if he had thought of something, and asked, "Aren't you a magician?"

Su Ya was slightly surprised, since she thought that Jose was a magician, she thought that Joseph was pretending to be a gesture, half a point of temptation, half a point of helplessness shook her head and said: "I didn't expect you to know a lot, even the storage ring, but unfortunately, I don't have that kind of high-level space magic equipment." And the only storage bag I had on me was lost in the desert a few days ago, so ......"

Qiao Se smiled bitterly in his heart, hearing Su Ya say this, it seems that he is the only one who can carry such things a little bit, so he simply brings everything he can with him.

Suya didn't get out of the car, but just watched with strange eyes as Jose loaded boxes of food and water onto the car.

Finally, he thought about it and took another fire axe, after all, now that he knew that he might encounter danger, he could feel more at ease with a weapon.

After a brief pause, the two of them ate something, and finally José carefully closed the hatch and left a note in a marker on the wall of the cabin, briefly explaining where he was going - at least he could be found if the crew returned, anyway.

After doing these things, the two of them were on the road again. After walking a short distance, José couldn't help but look back at the icebreaker lying in the desert behind him—it was the last bit of familiarity he had with the real world, and this time, there would be no turning back.

Holding back the surging tide in his heart, Jose's eyes finally became firm, and he turned around and pulled the reins forward, not looking back again......