Wei Lai and the three of them walked for a few days, and the more they walked, the more desolate they became, only to see the yellow sand everywhere, as far as the eye could see, and they didn't know how to walk.

Suddenly, there was a faint sound of camel bells, and the three of them were frightened, fearing that they were Xionglu soldiers, so they hurriedly jumped off their horses and led their mounts to the sand dunes to hide. After a while, I saw two girls in black staggering over on camels.

Wei Lai was overjoyed, climbed the sand dune, jumped out and said, "Girl, but the people of the Great Moon Country?" ”

The two women were startled and almost fell off their camels.

"I'm sorry to scare you. Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you! Wei Lai said busily.

The two girls saw that Wei Lai was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and he was very handsome, not like people from the Western Regions, and they felt a little at ease. Seeing the two people next to him, although they were burly and powerful, they were not vicious, so they asked in Dongsheng Chinese, "Are you Dongsheng Guoren clan?" ”

"Exactly! My name is Wei Lai, these two are Liu Dali and Huang Rushe! I didn't expect you to speak Dongsheng Chinese. ”

"My name is Bella, and this sister's name is Seya, we are both people from the border of the Great Moon Country, and we often deal with the merchants of the Eastern Saint Kingdom, so we know a little. What are you doing here? Was he also chased and killed by the Xionglu soldiers and fled? ”

"Exactly! We are going to go to the capital of Otsuki to do business. On the way, I met the Xionglu soldiers, and I ran around for a while, and finally got rid of them, but I got lost. Wei Lai said.

"We just want to go to Crescent City, so come with us." When Seya heard that they were also being hunted down by the Xionglu soldiers, she felt sorry for each other, and she suddenly became fond of them.

"Thank you for that!"

Five people wrapped scarves on their heads, braved the scorching sun, and struggled to move forward, rarely sleeping in the open. After a few more days of walking, the water was drained and the dry food was eaten, and the five men had chapped lips and were exhausted.

Liu Dali's riding didn't take long and fell to the ground and died, and the two horses of Wei Lai and Huang Rushe were also struggling and couldn't last long.

The five of them had to stop and rest, and Liu Dali chose some good meat from the dead horse and cut it, found some dead grass and rotten branches, burned a pond of fire, and burned the meat to eat.

After eating, he picked some good meat, divided it into strips, tied it with a rope, and hung it on the camel to cool down, Bella and Seya rode one camel together, and Liu Dali rode the other camel and continued to hurry.

After walking for a short time, Wei Lai suddenly saw a faint city not far ahead, pavilions and pavilions, vividly in his eyes, cars and horses, people swaying, couldn't help but be overjoyed, shouted, "Look, everyone! It's almost there, let's go! ”

Everyone was overjoyed, and they walked quickly, crossing one sand dune after another, but they couldn't catch up. Seeing this, Bella hurriedly shouted, "Wei Lai, don't chase it, it's a mirage!" ”

Wei Lai was puzzled, and when he looked again, the city was gone, only the vast yellow sand remained. "Mirage? What is a Mirage? It's really amazing, I saw it, why couldn't I catch up, and disappeared in a blink of an eye? ”

"It's a mirage at work, it conjures up what you crave, lure you to chase after it, make you lose your way in the desert, and when you're exhausted, it will come and take your spirit!" Seya said scaredly.

"It's dangerous!" Wei Lai couldn't help but feel a chill in his back.

"If we go on like this, if we don't be sucked by it, we will die of thirst in this hellish place! Knowing this, it is better to fight to the death in Wangxiang Pass! Liu Dali said hatefully.

"Hugh is talking nonsense!" Huang Rushe hurriedly interrupted Liu Dali's words.

Bella and Thea didn't bother to ask, they just felt that they were not as simple as merchants.

After walking for a while, I saw an abandoned rammed earth fort looming in front of me. From inside grew a date palm tree, a few dead leaves still hanging on the branches, gently shaking with the north wind. Bella exclaimed in surprise, "Oh! Soon, it's time for a bowl of water! ”

Wei Lai and the others didn't know whether a bowl of water was the name of a place or a castle, as long as there was water, no matter what it was, they all happily followed behind.

Seeing that it was coming, Liu Dali suddenly shouted to them, and glanced at Wei Lai, who looked at it with his gaze, only to see many camel footprints on the ground, leading straight to the earthen fort, although it was messy, but it was very clear, and it was just left behind, and there were no camel footprints in front of the ancient castle.

Bella was puzzled, and Huang Rushe said softly, "It's good to be quiet!" The three of them drew their weapons, hid the blade behind their legs, grabbed the reins, and slowly walked over. Bella and Seya couldn't help but become cautious and followed closely behind.

When they were about to reach the earthen fort, Liu Dali jumped off the camel lightly, separated from them, and touched them from the side.

Huang Rushe in front, rode the horse to the castle, only to listen to the "ah" of a broken drink, jumped out of the inclined plane of a Xionglu Pan soldier, raised the knife to Huang Rushe to chop, Huang Rushe had already prepared, a clamp between his legs, riding a horse and walking, the knife in his hand like lightning crossed, the Xionglu Pan soldier fell to the ground, was already out of breath. Looking at it again, there were five soldiers inside, all with scimitars in their hands, obviously stunned by Huang Rushe's move just now, and they were at a loss for a while, and the six camels knelt on the ground on the side, and they couldn't find it from the outside.

"Kill!" One of the older soldiers seemed to be a leader, first came back to his senses, shouted and rushed to Huang Rushe, Wei Lai had also rushed in, without saying a word, swung his sword and stabbed, forcing the soldiers to retreat, the other four soldiers saw it, hurriedly waved their knives and rushed forward, ready to besiege Wei Lai and the two.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Liu Dali fell from the sky, killed one with a knife, kicked out his left and right feet repeatedly, and kicked two more.

Huang Rushe shouted, "Keep me one!" The knife in his hand was swung out, and another one was slashed.

Wei Lai took the opportunity to rush forward, the sword in his hand was already on the neck of the stunned Fan Bing, and shouted, "Throw down the weapon!" The soldiers had no choice but to give in.

Liu Dali opened his bow left and right, and the two soldiers who fell to the ground were killed. With another kick, he kicked aside the weapon of the head of the fan.

Wei Lai pressed the sword a little harder against the middle carotid artery of the fanbing, and a drop of blood immediately slipped from the sword's body, "Say, how many people are there?" How did you get here? ”

"It's just the six of us, lost, lost, just found here!"

Huang Rushe drove his horse out of the earthen fort, and after a while, there was no one else except Bella and Seya riding their camels.

Wei Lai was relieved at this time, and he was killed with a sword. Bella and Thea followed Huang Rushe in, and when they saw it, they covered their eyes in shock.

Wei Lai glanced at them, then at the sword in his hand, and at the corpse of the soldier who fell to the ground, and suddenly felt disgusted, although he had seen a lot of murder scenes, and this was the first time he killed people by himself. He knelt down and couldn't help but feel an itch in his throat and vomit.

"It's okay, the first time, inevitably!" Huang Rushe jumped off the horse, patted Wei Lai's shoulder forward, and comforted.

Wei Lai spat a few times, tilted his head and sat down against the earthen fort, and only relieved himself after a moment. Huang Rushe made a few handfuls of sand to cover up the dirt. Together with Liu Dali, they dragged the six corpses out of the bunker one by one, threw them under the sand dunes, and used knives as shovels to dig up the sand and hastily cover them.

Bella and Thea jumped off their horses and asked, "I don't think you're merchants, who are you?" If we don't say we die, we won't bring you to Crescent City! ”

"I am the Emperor of the Eastern Saint Country, and I went to the Great Moon Country to form an alliance, with the three of us, it is impossible to do anything to the Great Moon Kingdom, you can rest assured!"

Bella was skeptical, but when he saw that they were friends and enemies after all, he did not ask any more questions, took out a small silver bowl, and went to the corner of the earthen fort near the sand date tree to get water, and saw that there was a spring the size of a bowl, no more, no less, just overflowing.

Wei Lai took Bella's silver bowl and drank it in one gulp, perhaps he had been thirsty for a long time, and Wei Lai only felt that the taste was as sweet as the sweetest wine in the world.

The five of them took turns to drink enough, then filled the skin water bladder, and let the livestock drink enough.

Liu Dali searched the camels of the soldiers, and found a few pots of wine, and was overjoyed, Wei Lai didn't drink it, so he shared it with Huang Rushe, drank a few sips, and exclaimed happily, "This thief's wine is stronger than that of my Eastern Holy Country!" ”

The five of them rested for a while, then changed into the camels of the soldiers, led the remaining horses and camels, and continued on their way.

Wei Lai was in a good mood, talking to Bella and Seya about the customs and people of the Eastern Holy Kingdom, asking them about the Chinese language of the Great Moon Country, and listening to them sing the love songs of the Great Moon Country, the singing was beautiful and moving.

After walking for a few days, I saw an oasis from afar, and the five people urged them to ride quickly, and arrived at the oasis, but they saw that the lake was blue, the grass and trees were abundant, like a fairyland, and the birds flew and gathered, and the beasts were infested, and they did not avoid people. Wei Lai was overjoyed and said, "What a paradise, let's rest for a while and wash the dust!" ”

Everyone readily agreed, tied the camels and horses, separated from each other, found a sheltered place, undressed, jumped into the water, and enjoyed themselves, and in a moment Bella and Thea had a water fight, and the crisp sound was loud and cheerful.

Wei Lai listened to the ripples in his heart, and unconsciously swam over. When Bella and Seya saw Wei Lai, they couldn't help blushing, but they didn't run away, and only splashed the water with their jade hands to splash Wei Lai.

Wei came to shoot back in the water, the three of them laughed and laughed, Liu Dali and Huang Rushe looked at each other awkwardly and smiled, went ashore and put on clothes, and stood guard in the distance. After a while, the laughter of the three men died down, but the sound of the water and the sound of the three men coming ashore was quiet, silent, and several of the beasts scattered away, and the water birds swam to one side. After two pillars of incense, Wei Lai came out of the woods, jumped into the water, washed himself, swam to the shore, and got dressed, and Bella and Seya came one after the other with crimson faces, and were already fully dressed.

The five people rushed to the mount, suddenly heard the horses neighing wildly, Liu Dali did not dare to slack off, galloped over, only to see a lion, is pounced on a horse, the horse's neck is tightly bitten, the bitten war horse struggles desperately, unexpectedly tied by the reins, unable to escape, the other mounts are running and roaring on the side, trying to break free from the reins.

Liu vigorously drew his knife, rushed forward with a loud shout, and slashed at the lion's head. The lion was frightened, rolled aside, saw that he was alone, beastly, the lion roared and pounced, Liu Dali did not avoid it, and slashed at the lion's head, splitting the lion's mouth in half.

The lion was so painful that it flew out, but Liu Dali didn't wait for it to fight back, rushed forward and cut it down several times, and actually cut off the lion's head.

At this time, Wei Lai and others arrived, and Bella exclaimed, "What a brave and invincible!" ”

Liu Dali said, "What is this!" Even if a hundred thousand thieves come, they are not afraid of him! As he spoke, he took a knife and cut the lion's meat, "Just enough to feed your stomach!" ”

Huang Rushe said, "I didn't expect there to be such a fierce beast here, I don't know if there are other companions?" ”

Seya looked at the horse, she had already lost her breath, and she was glad to say, "Fortunately, it was just a sneak attack on the war horse!" If the three of us had been attacked at that time...... "suddenly I lost my words and stopped talking."

Wei Lai smiled, "Don't be afraid if you come!" ”

"Let's go get some dry firewood!" Huang Rushe said as he walked.

Weilai, along with Thea and Bella, also went into the woods to collect dry firewood. was picking up, suddenly saw something in the grass moving quickly, Wei Lai drew his sword in his hand, held his breath and pointed to the grass, a moment, the thing rushed out of the grass, saw Wei Lai and others, hurriedly stopped his foot, it was an unweaned lion cub, very cute.

Wei Lai was overjoyed and rushed forward to catch it, and Bella and Theya went to watch, but the lion cub was not afraid, and looked at the three of them curiously.

Wei Lai said, "I think I'm looking for its mother." ”

"Yes, the lion probably is." Bella Road.

"What are you going to do with it?" Thea asked curiously.

"It's cute, I should be able to raise it." Wei Lai fondly touched the lion cub's head.

"I'll go talk to Dali and ask him to get rid of the lion." Bella said thoughtfully.

"Good! Or are you thoughtful, let's sit here for a while and then come over. Wei Lai touched the lion's head and said, "What should I call it?" ”

"If you take a name, you will have feelings, or not, I don't know if I can support it." Thea laughed.

"Let's call it a meal! Nasty thieves, let our lions eat them all! Wei Lai didn't care, he still named the lion.

"Food, food...... Why don't you change it to Shifang? The world of ten directions is invincible. ”

"Okay, it's called Shifang." Wei Lai was overjoyed. "Sister Thea is really ice and snow smart!"

After a while, a smell of meat wafted over, and Wei Lai held the lion cub in his arms, and took Seya by the hand to join them.

I saw Liu Dali grilling the skinned lion's legs on the fire, and the lion and the horse had already been dismembered into pieces of meat and tied to the camel.

The five of them sat around the fire, eating and chatting, and Wei Lai from time to time brought some horse meat and fed the lion cub, who was hungry, but did not refuse and devoured it.

The five of them had eaten and drunk enough, filled their water bags, and set off on their way.

In a few days, I arrived at Yuquan City, but it was just a small town, low earthen houses, three floors inside and three floors outside along the small Yuquan Lake, and the loess rammed built a high wall to block the wind and sand from the outside of the city.

Tall poplar trees are planted along the street, and a sewage ditch is dug under the house next to the tree, which runs through the town, with a drain every few miles, leading to the moat outside the city.

In the whole town, there are only four common toilets in the east, west, north and south, and the sewage outlet also leads to the moat, so the water in the moat is very dirty and smelly.

There was a mixture of people and animals in the city, and there was no dung to be seen on the streets, so it turned out that every camel had a dung bag to receive the excrement. Wei Lai praised while watching.

The citizens of Yuquan City stared at Wei Lai and them with curiosity on their faces, and there was a lot of discussion.

"Who is he? How did you hold a lion? ”

"It looks like it's not from the Great Moon Country, what is that?"

"It's rare and weird, it's a horse, I saw it when I went to the Eastern Holy Country, there are no camels over there, it is estimated that they are from the Eastern Holy Kingdom."

"Oh! Why are those two little ladies with them, it seems that they have an unusual relationship! ”

"It's just that I don't know shame, it's a shame to talk and laugh with foreigners in public."

"Hehe, I don't know if the people of the Eastern Holy Kingdom are not satisfied with them?"

"I don't think so, looking at the little white face, I'm afraid that guy is too short to be good!"

So the crowd burst into laughter.

A man jumped out, blocked Wei Lai's party, and asked in Dongsheng Chinese, "Little white face, are you playing tricks?" ”

Liu Dali listened, was furious, and scolded, "Straight mother thief!" "I want to have a seizure.

Wei Lai hurriedly stopped him and said with a smile, "We're just passing merchants." Please make it easier. ”

"Merchant? What to sell? Could it be that it is selling sex? "That man doesn't give up.

When passers-by heard this, they also started to coax.

"Sell these two little ladies to me, and let you pass." The man became more and more arrogant, and he expected that Bella and Seya were Wei Lai's wives and concubines, and the girl who wanted to come to see the Great Moon Kingdom was married by a foreigner, and he was very unconvinced.

Liu Dali couldn't bear it, rushed over and punched the man in the face, the man didn't want the other party to shoot, he couldn't dodge, he ate a heavy punch, and a front tooth flew out of his mouth.

"Hit someone!" Onlookers exclaimed.

The man was willing to give up and punched back, and the three men on the side also shouted and joined in, wanting to beat Liu Dali.

"Stop! Stop it! They are the envoys of the Eastern Holy Kingdom, and this is the Eastern Holy King's Ziwei! Bella shouted as she shielded the guard.

The four of them were stunned when they heard this, and they didn't know whether it was true or not, but they didn't dare to provoke it again, so they turned around and ran.

After a while, a group of soldiers rushed towards him, and the leading general was wearing a white helmet and white armor, and his face was gloomy. Wei Lai didn't know what he meant, and signaled Liu Dali and the others not to act rashly. The soldiers surrounded Wei Lai and his party.

"You are so bold, you dare to be presumptuous in the realm of the Great Moon Country!"

"We, the envoys of the Eastern Holy Kingdom. There are many misunderstandings in this matter," Wei Lai said.

"Envoy of the Eastern Holy Kingdom? Take it for me! The white-armored general shouted.

Liu Dali and Huang Rushe were furious when they heard this, and drew their knives in their hands, "Which one dare to do it?!" ”

"We came this time, there is no malice, I don't know why the general is indiscriminate, and he wants to take me?"

"Humph! You just want to say that the Great Moon Kingdom will send troops to Xionglupan to save your Dongsheng! ”

Wei Lai was taken aback, and he couldn't think of what he said, "So what?" ”

"So what?! Pull my Great Moon Kingdom into the flames of war, how can we let you go? ”

"Let's not talk about whether you can send troops or not, don't you treat the Eastern Saint Envoy like this, aren't you afraid that the Eastern Saint Country's soldiers will overwhelm the border?"

"Hmph, you can't protect yourself, how can you come to the army to suppress the realm? When I kill you and throw you in the desert, if the Eastern Holy Kingdom comes to ask for someone, you will never see it. There are many lonely ghosts in the desert! ”

"Hahaha!" When Wei Lai heard this, he held his stomach and laughed, laughing so much that tears came out.

The soldiers couldn't help but look at each other, and the man couldn't help but be furious, "What are you laughing at!?" ”

"Hmph, I'm laughing at you no one in the Great Moon Country! They're all gutsless rats! ”

The man pointed his spear at Wei Lai, "What a gut! ”

"Isn't it? The Xionglu Pan Kingdom has already burned the flames of war to the Great Moon Kingdom, don't believe it, ask them, you don't want to defend the country, but you have to do such a thing as a relative's bitter enemy. ”

"What he said is true!" Seya hurriedly proved, "Our homes were burned down by thieves, only two of us escaped from the whole village, several villages on the border were burned by them, and we also met Fan soldiers in a bowl of water!" Thanks to their martial arts! ”

"What!? A bowl of water has a soldier!? The man was skeptical, "In any case, please come with us first, and if it turns out that what you say is true, I will apologize and send someone to escort you to Half Moon City!" ”

Wei Lai said, "Let's go, the general will lead the way!" ”

Wei Lai and the others stayed in Yuquan City for a few days, but fortunately, they knew their identities and did not dare to slack off, so they waited for their lives, but they were also at ease.

On this day, Augustus, the lord of Yuquan City, personally invited Wei Lai and his party to apologize, and it turned out that Tanma had found out the situation at the border pass.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, Nikolai has been offended a lot a few days ago, and please Haihan." Augustus raised his glass.

"This king is young, he can't drink alcohol yet, please forgive me, the incident the day before yesterday was a misunderstanding, as long as the truth is found out, send us to Half Moon City as soon as possible."

"That's that, tomorrow I'll have Nikolai personally escort the prince."

"That's great!"