Chapter 183: On the Road
The original Yucun valley is 100 kilometers east.
Xiao Ming didn't think too much about taking the people from Yu Village out, with his strength, there was no problem in protecting the temporary safety of more than a thousand people. Soul Searching gives him powerful search powers, allowing him to spot the Sunset's massive marches far ahead.
And the small-scale sunseter is not in his eyes at all, and he can directly crush the past. And although the combat effectiveness of the people of Yucun is not high, it cannot be said that there is none, as long as the old and weak women and children who have no combat effectiveness are protected, the combat effectiveness that the hunting team led by Gao Gong can exert cannot be underestimated.
After all, the thirty dragoons could be just below the Sunsetter three times their size.
On the way, Xiao Ming finally had time to learn about the sage.
"Isn't the sage a god...... Didn't you send it from Mr. Xiao?" the old village chief was stunned after knowing that Xiao Ming didn't know who the sage was at all.
Xiao Ming shook his head: "Some of my elders like to do some things behind my back. I saw my elder's handwriting on the enchantment device, and I just wanted to make sure!"
As he grew up, Xiao Ming's language art had improved a little, and he had indeed found the residual soul breath that he was familiar with in the enchantment device, so he wanted to ask clearly.
"I see!" the old village chief was relieved at this time, he was really afraid that the sage who was respected and trusted by the people of his village had nothing to do with the "gods" he worshiped and was willing to follow...... No, what is more terrible than nothing is that the sage is the enemy of the gods.
However, hearing Xiao Ming say this, the old village chief was relieved and began to recall every detail carefully: "At the beginning, after you left, Mr. Xiao, we successfully survived the winter, but Brother Qiao and some old people still didn't survive, they were too old and had secret injuries, so they left without enjoying anything." Then I took over as village chief!"
The current old village chief is not the old man who was in charge when Xiao Ming first met the people of Yu Village, the old man named Qiao Lin passed away after that winter, and then the old village chief took over.
"At that time, we were holding a funeral for Brother Qiao and them, and the sage appeared, and he appeared directly at the mouth of the valley, and then came to us, and said that he was sent by you, Mr. Xiao, to help us build the village! That's why we firmly believe in it!"
After saying this, the old village chief looked at Xiao Ming cautiously, as if he wanted to confirm once again whether Xiao Ming really knew the sage.
"What does the sage look like?" Xiao Ming asked.
Of course, the old village chief remembered the sage's appearance clearly, and through his description, Jelly quickly made a vivid holographic avatar.
"Yes, this is the sage!" Gao Gong and the others were also very sure of this person's identity after seeing this.
Xiao Ming looked at this person's face and frowned.
"What's the matter, little sir, is there a problem?" Gao Gong noticed that Xiao Ming's expression was problematic.
Xiao Ming didn't answer Gao Gong's words immediately, but said to Jelly: "Jelly, add a beard to him, then change the color of his eyes to gold, and turn his long hair into an inch!"
With his words, a series of changes quickly occurred in the person on the avatar. This time, Xiao Ming finally recognized the person in front of him.
When he was still in the Doji, the guy who claimed to be serving Bassam, he once used the identity of the Prali House Paladin to help Xiao Ming. After that, he appeared strangely in the Star of the Ancient Domain, and appeared as a ranger at the end of the Ying Shunmen incident, calling on the rangers of the Western Continent to unite to investigate Ying Shunmen's crimes.
But after Xiao Ming pursued his news, he never gained anything.
And now, he has changed his appearance, an identity, and appeared as a so-called sage.
"Little sir, is there really a problem?" Seeing Xiao Ming's constantly changing face, Gao Gongxin brought it up.
Could it be that the sage really has any negative relationship with the little gentleman?
"It's nothing, don't worry, I know who he is!" Xiao Ming waved his hand to dispel the nervousness of the people of Yucun: "This is an elder of mine." It's just that his identity is too mysterious, and he likes to move around in disguise, and many times I don't know where he is or what he's doing!"
"Yes, yes!" the old village chief finally breathed a long sigh of relief. No matter how mysterious the sage is, or how many faces he has changed, as long as he is really Mr. Xiao's elder and his own person, it is enough. Otherwise, the people of Yucun would be quite embarrassed.
"Report, I have found traces of what the little gentleman said!" a dragoon rushed back from the front of the group. He is a scout, although the team itself does not need scouts, but in order to make the whole team active and united, Xiao Ming definitely can't do everything.
Fifteen of the twenty-nine Thornwood Dragoons acted as scouts, searching and alerting in the front and rear of the ranks, left and right. And the scouts at the front of the team have one more task, which is to find the traces of Xiao Ming and Jelly who met those guys wearing strange mechs that day.
Now the dragoon is back to report the search results.
It is a matter of course to find the traces of the other party, but Jelly has arranged ten scout bugs for each mecha person at that time to follow, as long as one of them returns to their base alive, Xiao Ming can find them.
And it turned out that these thirty people had quite good luck and ability, and they all returned safely, so Xiao Ming and the people of Yu Village were moving towards that position.
Now this road is the optimal route calculated by Jelly, the closest road in the safest situation. Of course, even then there are more than 500 kilometers to go, and it takes at least five or six days to get there.
Fortunately, not long after the team set off, Xiao Ming caught dozens of wild cattle, tamed them and let them be coolies, built some carts on the spot, and pulled those old and weak women and children with low mobility to move forward, otherwise it would be absolutely impossible to complete the more than 500 kilometers in five or six days.
Now I have only walked a little more than a day, a distance of more than 100 kilometers, and I have actually found traces.
Although Xiao Ming knew that sooner or later he would find traces of the other party, was it a little early now?
"Father, I'll take a look!" Jelly jumped on Ake's back and followed the dragoon to investigate, and it wasn't long before she returned: "Father, it is indeed the traces of those people!"
She raised her small hand, and there was a broken metal plate in her hand: "It's the armor part of that strange mecha, it seems that they have suffered some battle damage, but I don't know if there are any dead people." The surrounding traces are so badly damaged that it's impossible to tell if anyone is dead!"
"What are they doing so far away?" Xiao Ming frowned.
You must know that after the catastrophe of time, due to the special circumstances on the Western Continent, except for the Central Theater, there are very few strongholds in other places with an operating range of more than a hundred kilometers. Even if these people had mechs with good performance and could restrain the Sunset, they shouldn't have gone that far. When they first met each other, they were also less than 130 kilometers away from each other's stronghold.
"Can you tell when this armor piercing happened?"
"According to the scan, this thing should have been broken thirty-six hours ago. And judging from the few traces of the scene, they experienced a hard battle, but strangely, the battle was very short. Did they meet the best of the Sunseters?"
Jelly's analysis is not unreasonable, the other party's mecha has the ability to comprehensively suppress the sunseter, although there is a time limit, but at that time, Xiao Ming and the time they saw had already exceeded an hour. In other words, the other party can suppress the sunset for at least one hour.
However, the traces of battle found by Jelly were very short, and it could even be said that as soon as they came into contact, they directly entered the most intense state, and followed the mecha warriors to a complete rout.
"Father, is it possible that Xiao Qingya? She also arrived at the scene that day, if she recognized my disguise, or accidentally met those mecha warriors later, then those people should not be able to stop her!" Jelly asked in her heart.
Xiao Ming also thought of this possibility: "Continue to observe, you leave a part of the reconnaissance insects at the scene, and after the team passes, disperse fifty kilometers to search the surrounding area to see if there will be any clues." By the way, those thirty mechwarriors are still alive?"
"At least the mechs still exist, and I had the Scout Bugs follow the mechs because I suspected that there were more than thirty mech warriors on the other side. Judging from the combat situation of that mecha at that time, unless the opponent's A-class, it is impossible to fight for a long time. Their consumption will be faster than the consumption of the mech itself to suppress the Sunseter!"
"Okay, then let's do it, it seems that there is something wrong with the other party, we have to speed up!"
In the next two days, Yucun's team sped up and completed the three-day journey in two days, although it was very hard, but no one complained, as the Yucun people themselves determined, they would follow Xiao Ming to any place, whether it was heaven or hell, whether it was life or death.
On the way, Xiao Ming caught some more fierce star beasts, and quickly tamed these star beasts through soul killing techniques and soul training techniques, so that they could become the mounts of Yucun warriors. However, because Xiao Ming is not familiar with it, the success rate of this method is currently only 50 percent, and even if it succeeds, its combat effectiveness will decline to a certain extent.
After all, there were not many beast powerhouses in the Yu Village, and the situation was completely different from Yuan Jiuxiao's side. But as Xiao Ming becomes more and more familiar, this situation will definitely be improved.
Now the hottest topic among the warriors of Yucun is what star beast Mr. Little will catch next time, and which lucky person will get the star beast tamed by Mr. Xiao's novice.
Because of this, although the people of Yucun accumulated a lot of fatigue after the two-day rapid march, the morale of the people became higher and higher.
On the morning of the fourth day of departure, with less than a hundred kilometers to go to his destination, Xiao Ming decided to slow down and let the team rest first, so that they could meet what might happen next in a complete state.
The soldiers of Yucun now have forty-one star beast cavalry, Xiao Ming has caught a total of eleven star beasts on the road, although the level is not very high, and the practicability of the wheel is not as good as the thorn wood dragon, let alone the Baotou dragon, but it also makes the eleven new cavalry greatly increase their combat effectiveness.
Early in the morning, a dragoon who had gone out on patrol brought back good news, he had spotted a small herd of nightmare horses.
Equine Star Beasts have three trump cards: Unicorn, Nightmare, and Pegasus.
Among them, the unicorn is the strongest of the horse star beasts, and there are three types of holy light unicorns, thunder unicorns, and flame unicorns. The rank corresponds to nine, eight, and seven stars from top to bottom.
Tifa's mount, Liuyan, is the Flame Unicorn of the Seven Stars.
Although Pegasus is the lowest rank among the three trump cards, only five stars, it is the fastest and the only one that can fly.
As for nightmares, they are the most special among the three trump cards, and their rank is theoretically nine stars, but in fact, it is rare to have such a high-level nightmare (the rank is that the star beast can theoretically reach the level after 10,000 years), and basically the recorded nightmares can only reach six stars.
But even if it's a six-star, Nightmare's ability is extremely strong. Their combat power may not be too high, if they are hard to touch below, they can't beat any of the star beasts of the same level, but the nightmare's fighting style is assassin-like, in this way, they can even threaten the eight-star beasts.
Its greatest ability is shadow travel, which is a rather special, space-like ability. The Nightmare can take its knights with it to travel through the shadows - as long as there are shadows in sight, it can travel without any consumption, without any stiffness, without any ability to cool down.
Fighting Nightmares, unless it's in a completely shadowless environment, it's quite difficult to defeat these slippery guys.
Interestingly, this ability of nightmares was not originally created by humans, but evolved by itself for some subtle historical reason.
It's just that what this history is all about is completely unsophisticated.
"Nightmare Horse, that's the best place to be a mount!" Yu Chi's eyes lit up immediately.
"Stupid, are nightmares so easy to catch?they are quite vindictive, once they run away, they will do something to the other people in the village!" Yu Yebai hated that iron was not steel, and he twisted Yu Chi's ears.
As the most bizarre existence among the three aces of the horse star beast, the nightmare horse also has the most bizarre personality. Other equine star beasts tend to have a peaceful personality, but Nightmare Horses are different, they are irritable, vindictive, and cautious, but once they confess their master, they are loyal and will never betray.
In addition, the Nightmare Horse is also the most intelligent of the three aces of equine star beasts, and individual individuals can learn human language directly without even any guided surgery, and can easily master it.
Xiao Ming smiled and asked Yu Yebai to let go of Yu Chi's ears: "Jelly, you are guarding here, I'll go and see!Lasu, you come with me!"
Xiao Ming takes Lasu, the second eldest of the three Inu Ling brothers, to discover the place where the Nightmare Horse is discovered. (To be continued.) )