Although it is located on the southern border, due to the mountains around the Tempest Canyon and the wall of wind and sand, all the wind and sand from the northwest are deposited near the vent of the canyon, which is the most desertified place in the Empire.

However, a quarter of the empire's vast territory was desert, and the Tempest Gorge was not the domain of any nobles, so no one bothered to govern it, so they simply moved their inhabitants to the intersection of the Oasis Trail, and this is how Yorktown was born.

A group of people wrapped in sand gowns walked along the Oasis Trail, which could accommodate about three or four wagons side by side, flanked by desert thorn trees whose ability to conserve water and soil gave the road a vibrant life.

The Oasis Trail is difficult to set up a sentry post, and the thorn bushes on the south side are connected to the wall of wind and sand, and the rat-like smugglers can carve new passages anywhere on the road, and they have the patience to spend years opening a new secret passage.

"That's it, I've been using this road for almost 10 years and no one has found it. Now it's cheaper for you!Sally. The sand dwarf Colason said sullenly that Sally had now activated the "Wind Rider" bloodline and let her know this secret passage, which was equivalent to giving it to her.

Colossus tugged at an inconspicuous spot around the corner of the road, pulling out a large pile of dry thorn vines, but the vines were dyed with brown potion by him, and they looked no different from the thorn trees around them.

Soon he made a hole for people to pass through, and Colossus kicked the ogre in the ass, causing it to lie on the ground and burrow inside.

"Let Arua take the lead. Colossus explained, "Those poisonous sand lizards are not big, but they are in groups, and the venom splashes everywhere and cannot be prevented. However, the poison is ineffective against Arua. ”

Hearing his words, the female elf Sally's eyes narrowed, the arrow she shot into the ogre's palm was poisonous, and the average ogre would fall to the ground after rubbing it to the ground. But the ogre didn't react at all.

"As soon as we hear the sound of a sand lizard, we immediately stop all movement and blow this. Colossus took out some whistles made of bones and handed them to the man in the back. "Wait for the sand lizards to disperse before moving on, and don't make unnecessary moves to stimulate them. ”

Sally also came up with some weird whistles, apparently she was very experienced. The ogre writhed awkwardly and crawled forward, and the men followed it in turn. The girl who was hired by the sand dwarf frowned, and she looked at the other women in the team, these employers were really interesting, and she estimated that it would be difficult for her to deal with them for a while

Colason was the last, carefully camouflaging the passage with the dry brambles. Even a professional scout can't find out if he doesn't know about it in advance.

Shortly after they left, a strange large-headed sand lizard flashed out of the thorn strips on the side of the road, its head was twice as large as its body, but it was quite agile, and the sand lizard began to burrow into the dry thorn tree vines with difficulty.

"Damn it's stuck!" Heras cursed inwardly, following the burq-robes early this morning, far from them, and transformed into sand lizards as they entered the Oasis Trail. For this reason, he drank a bottle of precious mental power recovery elixir, which could double the natural recovery speed of mental power in the next hour. But even then, he could only transform for less than two hours.

Limbs that were so short compared to the lizard's head struggled to support the thorns, and Heras finally broke free from the dry camouflage vines, and he crawled quickly along the relatively sparse thorns on the side wall of the passage.

The dense thorns around it block the sunlight, and the passage is not well lit, making it very shady. Colossus watched cautiously, and the rustle of something across the brambles could be heard.

"It's coming. He was nervous thinking in his heart, although he had penetrated deep into the wall of wind and sand many times, but every time these poisonous lizards appeared, his heart still tightened, if one was not careful, these lizards would go crazy, and when the time came, the venom sprayed everywhere could be corroded by even the protective spells of the official mage. It's hard to hide in this confined space.

Heras also felt the gathering of lizards, and even one of them crawled in front of him, and the lizard tilted its head to look curiously at its strange kind, its belly plummeted with its breathing, and then it climbed up to Heras's head and began to observe.

Heras held his breath, attacking and being attacked would destroy the mage's shapeshift, and if the sand lizard sprayed poison at him, his disguise would be immediately pierced. But his worries seemed unwarranted, and the sand lizard was merely curious, and it kept scratching at Lahras's big eyelids with its claws, which made him itch very much.

The sand lizard's throat shook and screamed at Heras, who simulated it. After a while, the sand lizard lost interest in him, turned his head and crawled over to the burqa men in front of him.

"Don't move, don't move! Blow the whistle softly!" said Colesun hurriedly and carefully. Then a dense and eerie whistle sounded, like the sound of a rainstorm crashing on a thorn bush. The lizards shook their heads, a knee-jerk reaction, and when it rained, they would quickly duck back into their nests in the trees. Some of the lizards were still scratching their cheeks with their front paws, and they clearly couldn't understand why there were no drips of water on their bodies. However, out of instinct, the gathered lizards gradually dispersed.

Colosson was relieved to see the lizards crawl back to their nests. "Wait a little longer before leaving," he said silently. The hired maiden looked quite nervous, she had never been in the Thorn Forest, and when she saw this scene, she was so frightened that she covered her mouth with her hand so that she would not scream. But her hand was accidentally scratched by the thorns on the periphery of the passage, and the pain caused her to scream briefly. The retreating sand lizards immediately looked in unison.

"It's over" Several experienced adventurers all showed desperate expressions, and before they could make any moves, venom poured down from all directions.

"Damn it! don't let the guide die!" shouted one of the burqamen, and a wall of green flames suddenly appeared above the group, blocking and evaporating all the venom that had been poured down. The second-level spell Burning Fire Barrier, but the person who released it is obviously a bloodline warlock, and this spell looks a little different from the ordinary Burning Fire Barrier because of the power of his bloodline, and the power is doubled.

The wall of fire burned off a lot of thorns, and the vision became a little wider. The dark, chestnut-haired young man named Guido hurriedly took a handful of powder from his bosom and poured it into his mouth. Then his body emitted a strong pungent smell of sulfur, which the sand lizards apparently hated and fled to the treetops where there was fresh air.

"Take the wounded and run! it won't last long!" shouted Guido, and they ran towards the front of the passage, the lizards crawling away in their way.

"Don't leave me Crazon, please" A man in the Colasons team was unfortunately sprayed with venom on his back, which not only corroded his clothes and armor, but also kept infiltrating his body, and he fell to the ground with a limp and pleaded in despair.

Colosson was as if he couldn't hear, and he longed to have four legs now. Quito watched the scene, cursed, and turned back to pick up the fallen adventurer and poured him a bottle of potion. Seeing him turn around, the fleeing people also stopped, and now they relied on the scent of Quito to drive away the sand lizards, and they did not dare to go too far from Quito.

The man looked at Quito with gratitude, for it was the gods' favor that such a benevolent employer could meet him. And Quito, after pouring him with a healing potion, casually threw him to a man in a burqa. "Carry him away! Don't be left behind!" hurriedly gave the order, and the group of people rushed to the depths of the passage.

Heras hid in the sparse thorns on the side and watched the show, these poisonous sand lizards not to mention the people in front of him, even he felt a little troublesome, their smell would attract each other, and the blood scattered after killing a group would make more of the same kind come over, it was endless. Every year, the garrisons of the Empire buy it and stock it in the Wind and Sand Wall, which is a great headache for smugglers.

From time to time, the sand lizards swept around Heras, and the peculiar smell of sulfur stimulated them to scurry, and they just wanted to breathe fresh air. One of the sand lizards even grabbed Heras by the tail and told him to walk quickly

"These things are quite united," Heras smirked in his heart, flicked his tail a few times and broke free, and the sand lizard saw that he didn't want to leave, so he didn't care about him, and ran away on his own.

After running for a while, the sand lizards had mostly dispersed, and Colason made a gesture to slow down the men, so that they could finally get rid of it, and if they made another noise, they might attract another group.

"Just rest here for a while, and treat the wounded first. Arriving at a fork in the passage, Quito said calmly.

A low sobbing came from the crowd, and the girl could no longer hold back the fear and guilt in her heart, and she covered her mouth with her hands, but she could not stop crying.

"Shut up!" Cerason growled, and if it weren't for the fear that the smell of blood would attract more dangerous creatures, he would have wanted to slaughter the woman who had nearly killed them.

Guido patted the girl on the back to soothe her a few times, then poured a few drops of conciliatory potion into her nostrils. The girl's mood gradually stabilized, she looked at Guido gratefully, and muttered, "Thank you" She had decided to do everything in her power to satisfy the young man in return.

The eyes of those adventurers were different when they looked at Quito, full of respect and trust, they had never seen an employer who cared so much about the adventurer's life.

Heras, who had been stuck behind, even felt a little sympathy for the poor adventurers at the moment, apparently not knowing what they were going to face next. He was now convinced that the passage had been opened by the Billians and had been used by the Coplastians for a living during the decade of desolation.

"We need to find a flat and wide open space and set up a tent to rest. Who knows where there is such a place?" asked Quito.

The girl laughed awkwardly, she thought she knew what it meant to rest

"The gaps in the walls of wind and sand can barely accommodate a few people at most, and there can be no flat and wide open space. The female elf Sally frowned, she had barely played any role along the way, and she looked sullen at this time.

Colossus struggled for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "I know a place, it's at a fork in this passage, come with me" Although he didn't want Sally to know the secret, the employers were obviously the kind of people who were happy, and if they were happy, there might be more additional commissions. With that, he got up and walked past the ogre, and led the way through the side passage.

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