Chapter 63: The Earth King Scorpion and the Fallen Horse Desert

Crash...... Crash......

Lin Cheng dragged heavy shackles under his feet, and was taken to a group of ragged, hideous-looking captives, who were also bound by iron chains, and tied to a thick long chain, surrounded by many soldiers wearing stubborn waists and hanging bows and arrows.

Those soldiers were wearing leather armor painted with the pattern of a golden snake, and it could be inferred that they were soldiers of the Shooting Yang Kingdom, which made Lin Cheng very happy.

During war, the army does not keep prisoners, and usually kills them on the spot. The reason why this is so is that one is to save troops, food and grass, and the other is to be afraid of any changes.

Only after the end of the war will the army return home with the captives, ordinary captives will be used as coolies, and the Demon Tail may be taken in by the Demon Spirit Tower and become the target of training their own Demon Tail Warriors.

Of course, some Demon Tails may also be sold directly, or even become experiments for some Demon Spirit researchers. All in all, 99 percent of the captives were miserable.

Most of these captives had wolf-shaped tattoos on their bodies, and they were obviously the most famous soldiers of the Heavenly Wolf Kingdom in the Longze Continent. From this, it can be inferred that the two warring parties are the Shooting Sun Country and the Sky Wolf Country.

And the junction of these two countries is the Barren Mountain Range, as for which range of the Barren Mountain Range is, it is a little difficult to say.

In any case, the retreat of the Sheyang Kingdom will inevitably pass through the Qingqi Xiongguan Qishan Pass.

In this way, Lin Cheng would simply hide among the captives, and he would be able to follow the army of the Sheyang Kingdom and go home leisurely. It's just that he needs to always be on guard against the powerful lady and wait patiently for the opportunity to escape.

Although the development of things is full of variables, it is generally within Lin Cheng's expectations.

He roughly swept the group of hundreds of captives, lay down on the spot, and ran the "Crouching Tiger Gong" method, closed his eyes and rested.

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The next day, the army of nearly 10,000 people set out, and it was actually lined up in a long snake-like column, stretching out without seeing the head and tail. The captives were driven to the forefront, followed by a small number of horsemen, and then the infantry, which dominated the forces.

Although Lin Cheng has been isolated from the world for many years, he often studied with his grandfather and father, who were officers, when he was a child, and he knows a little bit about the way to arrange troops.

Consciously an army of nearly 10,000 people marching long distances should be more taboo to be placed in such a long snake formation. If the enemy comes suddenly, it will be difficult to deal with each other, and the team will easily be scattered. In addition, the enemy is the Sky Wolf [***] team, which is known for its long-distance attacks, and it is necessary to be on guard at all times.

And the commander of this 10,000-person team is none other than the ignorant girl who had a bizarre affair with Lin Cheng in the water lake. In this way, Lin Cheng naturally had doubts about the army of the Sheyang Kingdom, and secretly thought that the girl must have obtained the rank through her identity.

You can become the commander of an army of 10,000 people just by virtue of your identity, and the nobility of that status can naturally be imagined. In this way, Lin Cheng's desire to escape naturally became more and more urgent.

Before the army could be drawn, the other captives were unshackled, and only a few were still dragged forward in heavy chains, and Lin Cheng was unfortunately one of the few who were particularly cared for.

His hands, like the others, were handcuffed to a large iron chain the thickness of an arm, and he walked at the back of the captive procession, "ding-ding-clang", although heavy, and not very laborious for him.

The other captives didn't seem to care much about him, a well-dressed newcomer, and they all walked intently, driven by the knights in the rear, not daring to be distracted in the slightest.

Some people are even consciously stepping on the footprints of the former, as if walking a tightrope in the air, which is very strange.

Seeing this, Lin Cheng was naturally curious. But the one who touches the ear is often whipped by the knight, and although he is tough, he does not want to be insulted in the air.

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The flames hung high, the dust was flying, and the team marched in the vast sea of sand, constantly moving westward. Looking from afar, I felt that the endless sand dunes were moving slowly like huge monsters......

Hearing a scream, a person at the front of the captives suddenly fell to the ground. Seeing this, the other captives all showed extremely frightened looks, and they all stepped back in unison, and Lin Cheng was naturally squeezed back again and again.

His eyes sparkled with silver, and through the cracks of the crowd, he saw that the man who had fallen to the ground was dragged to the ground by everyone, sliding in the soft sand, foaming at the mouth and twitching violently in his limbs, obviously looking like he had been poisoned by some kind of poison.

Several knights with spears came quickly, all staring closely at the sand, and stabbing them with their spears.

After more than a dozen breaths, a large scorpion the size of a half-palm was picked out by a knight with a spear. Although the body was penetrated, the long hooked scorpion tail was still shaking violently, looking very fierce.

Seeing this, Lin Cheng couldn't help but gasp, and his scalp was slightly numb.

He finally understood why the army was lined up in a long snake formation, in order to minimize the casualties caused by the poisonous scorpion. The captive, who walked at the front of the line, acted as a substitute for the dead.

The poisoned man was already exhausted in his twentieth breath, and was unhandcuffed by a soldier with iron-soled sword boots and thrown aside. Under the whipping of the knight, the team did not stay long, and soon began to move on.

Lin Cheng recalled it for a moment, and then thought about what kind of existence such a fierce place was.

"It turns out that this is the legendary Fallen Horse Desert!"

The Fallen Horse Desert, one of the Jedi in the Barren Mountains, is extinct in humans and beasts, and there is no smoke for thousands of miles, but there is a large number of poisonous insects that make people talk about it, which is the kind of scorpion that Lin Chengfang has only seen, called the Earth King Scorpion.

The reason why the Fallen Horse Desert is called the "Fallen Horse" is precisely because of the existence of the Earth King Scorpion.

In this endless desert, the Earth King Scorpion hides in the sand, almost everywhere. When a horse passes by, it will sting on its hooves or legs, and it will fall and die if it can't walk a few steps.

In this way, the venom carried on the barb of the Earth King Scorpion is also known as the inverted horse poison, and it is also one of the "Ten Absolute Poisons" in the Longze Continent. In general, it is extremely difficult to lift.

And this desert is also widely known as the Fallen Horse Desert, and in ordinary times, no one dares to step on it easily.

There are barren rivers all over the desert, which is actually a section of the barren mountain range, but it is just a rare desert-type mountain river.

This is the territory of the Six-Tailed Scorpion King, one of the ten demon kings of the Barren Mountain, and this is the territory of the six-tailed scorpion king, although the territory of the six-tailed scorpion king is wide, but it is the only existence among the ten demon kings who does not have power and chooses to cultivate alone.

But this does not affect his famous reputation on the Longze Continent, even if it is a peerless existence such as the Bearded Dragon King, if he encounters him, it is estimated that he will not hesitate to retreat and salute three points.

It is precisely because there is no demon clan power on the Fallen Horse Desert that the Heavenly Wolf Country, which has always been ambitious, often crosses this desert and attacks the territory of the Sheyang Country. Therefore, every time the two countries fight, the Fallen Horse Desert will become the most brutal battlefield.

After seeing the danger of the Fallen Horse Desert, Lin Cheng naturally put the idea of escaping on hold for the time being.

Although he has a certain degree of resistance to poisons, with his cultivation at this stage, it is simply impossible to survive in such a fierce place alone without the help of Zhenhaizhu.

Therefore, as a prisoner, it is the wisest choice to stay with these troops.

At night, the army camped on a bare stone mountain. Lin Cheng gave a meal to a soldier of the Heavenly Wolf Country, and only then did he learn about the battle from his mouth.

It turned out that more than ten years ago, almost when Lin Cheng participated in the "first-line sky hunting" that changed his fate, the conspiracy of the Heavenly Wolf Kingdom to secretly release a large number of "wolf warriors" in the Qingqi Mountains was unexpectedly revealed, which attracted the attention of the Demon Spirit Tower of Qizhou City.

In this way, the arrow had to be sent, and the Celestial Wolf Country did not declare war, and used the "Wolf Warrior" to indulge a large number of wild wolves, and began a large-scale invasion of Sheyang Country, and once captured Qishan Pass, which triggered a protracted war......

Later, for some reason, the Heavenly Wolf Kingdom began to secretly withdraw its troops when the war was at its most intense......

Sheyang Country and Sky Wolf Country are both the twelve powerful countries of the Longze Continent, although the two sides have accumulated deep evil, they are undying enemy countries, but nominally speaking, they are both vassals of the Longze Empire, and the conquest has always been necessary to pay attention to the reputation of a teacher.

The rise of the Heavenly Wolf Country as an unknown division naturally made the entire government of the Sheyang Kingdom angry, and regarded it as a great shame. After the withdrawal of the Celestial Wolf Country, it did not passively compromise, but sent an elite army to carry out a ferocious pursuit......

Until now, the war has almost ended, and most of the Sheyang [***] team has begun to retreat, and the army he is in is a great presence in this pursuit, belonging to the Golden Snake Army, one of the three strong armies of Sheyang Country.

Hearing this news, Lin Cheng was of course very shocked in his heart, he really didn't expect that there would be such a long war in the more than ten years since he left.

Since its construction more than 1,000 years ago, Qishan Pass has been repeatedly destroyed, but it has never been directly occupied. From this, one can imagine how tragic the war must be.

Lin Cheng didn't care too much about this, he was just extremely worried about his relatives.

The occupation of Qishan Pass means that the entire Qingqi Mountain Range, and even Qizhou City, have once become a occupied area.

In that case, the parents, grandfathers, and even all the townspeople of Qingqi Town, what their surnames will be, is really an extremely worrying unknown......