Chapter 9: Ordinary Things
In a small environment, when the law and morality are completely absent, man will become the most cruel animal in the world.
There are very few scenes of cannibalism among social animals, not even wolves.
On the Great Channel, a place where humans live, cannibalism and cannibalism have become a daily routine.
Nature is amazing, and behind a barren saline land, an oasis has emerged.
The oasis is not big, no more than ten miles long and no more than one mile wide.
The reason why it is a long strip distribution is entirely because there is an underground river here, the underground river as the name suggests is the river water gushing out from the big underground, the water quality is clear, not to mention, it will not dry up, but it is a pity that the water volume of this river is insufficient after all, and after stretching for more than ten miles on the sea road, it is drained by the dry climate here.
Even though the river has existed for many, many years, its radiation range is still so large that after raising some poplars, red willows, date palms, barley fields, and vineyards, there is no extra energy to nurture other things.
The people of the Western Regions, everyone expects to get a pasture that no one knows except themselves, and they will keep a firm record of the water sources they pass by, and then enjoy them alone.
After being seen by an adventurous robber, and firmly remembered, it was finally known by many robbers, and the robber leader wanted to kill the robber who knew this secret realm for his own use, but a group of robbers killed the robber leader, and then used this place as a base for the little robbers.
Xiao Yuhua's Hongliulin knew that two tattered corpses were used as markers, and by the way, they threatened the latecomers.
When Yun Chu's striker came out of the sea of tears and saw a large patch of poplars with golden leaves, and was about to cheer, a large and even grander cheer suddenly erupted in the poplar forest.
Then, Liang Ying, who was the leader, saw a large group of robbers dressed in leather robes and brandishing knives happily killing the army led by him.
If it was just an adult male robber, Liang Ying, a young man from a regular military background, would naturally happily greet him and take away his own glory.
The problem now is that there are men, women, and children among the people who rush up, and there is no discipline, and even the old people who are about to die of old age, and children who have just learned to walk, rush up with all kinds of strange weapons.
Just when Liang Ying was still thinking about whether to kill all these people, Xiao Yuhua had already brandished a horizontal knife and rushed down the sand slope.
Not only did Xiao Yuhua run down, but even Avanti shouted "rush" while urging his donkey to run down, but the speed was a little slow.
As long as he doesn't fight with Zhong Kui, Xiao Yuhua's skills are still very good, his skills are extremely flexible, and he often circles on the horse like a Hui people, and under a horizontal knife, countless killings have been created in a moment.
Liang Ying saw that Xiao Yuhua had already started fighting, so he waved his hand and led the forward cavalry down the ramp to kill.
Seeing that Xiao Yuhua's brigade was killed, Avanti's donkey was excited, and he also followed Liang Ying's brigade and collided with those robbers.
By the time Yun Chu, Wen Rou, Zhong Kui, and Zhang Donghai arrived at the sweet water well with a huge camel caravan, the war here was over.
Gently looking at the men and women everywhere, the corpses of old and young said in surprise, "Don't they know that they are facing the Tang Army? Are all the people of the Western Regions so brave?"
Yun Chu said helplessly: "In the Western Regions, the most terrible person is the army, whether it is the Tang Dynasty army or the army of that tribe, the only thing that the army represents in the Western Regions is looting and disaster, especially in the face of this kind of wandering people in the Western Regions who have no tribal protection, the army is coming, it shows that they are either going to die, or they are going to become slaves, there is no second result, if they don't want to die, they don't want to be slaves, they will fight desperately, hoping to get a glimmer of life through fighting."
Gently listened to Yun Chu's words and nodded, then looked around at the Gobi Desert and the desert in the distance, then shook his head and said, "Here, even escaping is a luxury, what is the matter with Liang Ying, why didn't he even let go of the women and children?"
Yun Chu said, "I led the army with the same result......
Gently frowned, "Can you kill women and children?"
Yun Chu said, "Kill all the men, leave the women and children, their fate will be even more miserable, there are many people who covet such a good oasis as the Sweet Water Well, only because they can't beat the people here in the Sweet Water Well, we have the current peaceful appearance of our food and grass, and the mission does not allow us to carry these women and children, leave them, they will become a dish on someone else's table."
Liang Ying came over to report the battle with trepidation, Yun Chu listened very carefully, and when he learned that Xiao Yuhua jumped out to fight without waiting for the military order, he naturally stared at Zhong Kui.
Zhong Kui nodded and said, "When his injuries get better, I'll clean it up myself."
Gently looked at Liang Ying and said, "Are there no living people?"
Liang Ying hesitated for a long time before saying, "The last general doesn't know if those are still people," and said softly and angrily, "If people are not people, what are they?"
Yun Chu glanced at the small Sweet Water Well Oasis and sighed, "People in the Western Regions like to eat meat, there are not many plants and trees here, which is not suitable for grazing cattle and sheep, and the weather here is hot, so meat is not easy to store......
Before Yun Chu finished speaking, his gentle face began to turn green, he had never lived in the Western Regions, but he had read many, many books about the Western Regions, so he immediately understood the meaning of Yun Chu's words.
Yun Chu said to Liang Ying, "Kill them, and then ask the master of Shaolin Temple to chant and pray for them, praying that they will not be human beings in the next life, this world is too cruel for them."
Liang Ying was visibly relieved, and ran to Naha's carriage to find the master to do something for the living.
Xiao Yuhua found a large number of raisins on the Sweet Water Well Oasis, which may be the only specialty and grain here.
Avanti was also very excited to find a lot of glittering stones and a lot of gold coins, silver coins and copper coins from the Tang Dynasty on the Sweet Water Well Oasis.
These things were casually packed in leather pockets, and some of the ropes that strung copper coins had rotted away, and they scattered to the ground at the slightest touch.
When Yun Chu walked into the Sweet Water Well Oasis, Gentle was reluctant to go in, preferring to laugh and laugh with Naha through the window than to go into the Sweet Water Well Oasis and use the sweet water there to wash the dust.
Naha was reluctant to go in, because Gentleness said that this sweet water well oasis was too disgusting.
Gentle thought that even if he was so dirty at this moment that he couldn't stand it, he didn't want to go to a place like a demon cave to take a bath.
The gentleman is thirsty and does not drink the water of the thief spring, which is the gentle insistence, so he secretly drinks the few rice wines with Naha.
Liang Ying gathered all the wood he could find here, lit a large fire, and burned the ugly things that were beyond human nature.
As for the robbers who died in battle, they found a leeward bunker and buried them with soft sand, so that even if the sand moved, it would only bury them deeper, and not be blown away by the wind and sand.
When he rested at night, Xiao Yuhua slept on the sand, and although it was cold, he insisted on staying here, and Naha's carriage did not enter the depths of the camp, and he was a little uneasy.
Avanti stuffed a lot of raisins into his mouth, and while eating, he looked at Naha, and said to Xiao Yuhua, "You should light a bonfire and sing to the sound of my piano, maybe you can attract Miss Naha."
Xiao Yuhua looked at the dark sky and said, "Wait a while, you'd better run farther, I don't think it's stable tonight."
Avanti stopped and said in surprise as he put the raisins in his mouth, "Do you smell danger?"
Xiao Yuhua pointed to his head and said, "I'm very uneasy here, as long as I'm uneasy here, something bad will happen."
"You should tell Liang Ying that kid that he's on duty tonight."
Xiao Yuhua pointed to the row of tents facing the Gobi and said, "He arranged all the people over there," Avanti stood up and looked at the desert behind Xiao Yuhua and said, "You mean the danger comes from the desert?" You should make it clear to Liang Ying."
Xiao Yuhua shook his head and said, "Liang Ying said that the sand dunes over there are very high, and no one can suddenly kill them from the desert, and it is the Gobi side that needs to be prevented."
Avanti nodded and said, "What he said makes a lot of sense, it's still possible for one or two people to steal from there, and a large group of people can't march in the desert."
After speaking, he stuffed a handful of raisins into his mouth and said, "I'll accompany you" Gentle and morally clean, unwilling to touch the water in the sweet well, Naha was disgusted by the gentle words, and refused to touch the water in the sweet well.
Yun Chu didn't care, and Zhong Kui, who was determined to deal with demons and monsters for the rest of his life, didn't care.
So, the two of them lit a bonfire at the source of the underground river to barbecue meat and drink.
Zhong Kui looked around, pulled the charcoal fire with a stick and said, "What happened here, is it common in the Western Regions?"
Yun Chu shook his head and said, "It's unusual among the tribes, but it's very common in the robbers' den, looking at the good grasslands in the Western Regions, they are all occupied by large ethnic groups and countries, and the robbers and horse thieves can only choose some places where the cavalry is unwilling to come, and the army is unwilling to come, most of these places are not suitable for human beings to gather and live, plus the people who live together are very mixed, and the only connection between people is force, so ah, bad things will happen."
"Including feeding a man, cutting meat and eating it?"
Yun Chu looked up at Zhong Kui and said, "It's not that there is no such record in the history of our clan, what's so strange about what happened in the Great Sea Dao? The reason why I am trying to build Chang'an into a real heroic city is to prevent this kind of thing from happening in Chang'an."
"This kind of thing will happen in Chang'an?" Zhong Kui was very surprised by Yun Chu's words, he was born in the Tang Dynasty of Johnson & Johnson, and he naturally felt that Chang'an City was a city that would never fall.
Yun Chu didn't answer Zhong Kui's question, lifted the horse lance inserted in the sand, looked at the dark desert direction, and said, "Get ready, Zhang Donghai has already sent a signal, and a large number of sand thieves are sneaking over from the desert."