At this moment, Ai Qin and I sat in the shade of a large rock wall, hiding from the direct rays of the scorching sun at noon on the plateau overhead, although the temperature on this plateau was not very high, but the scorching sun during the day was very scorching.

In addition, since I came out of the snow-capped mountains, I have not carried out systematic physical recovery training until now, and now my physical strength is seriously degraded, and my body is exhausted after a day of walking in this valley.

"I didn't expect this valley to be so big, I think we have to walk for two days before we can get out!" I said, looking at the steep peaks on either side of the valley.

"The scorching sun is on the head during the day, the cold wind is howling at night, and there is no decent road in this canyon, so it is still unknown whether you can go out in two days!" Ai Qin said, "But fortunately, the supplies in our backpacks are quite sufficient, and it will not be much of a problem to hold on for another three or five days." ”

At dusk on the third day, we finally walked out of the valley and saw a herdsman on the way home on the deserted Gobi desert and the grassland.

He watched Aichen and I staggering out of the valley, and thought that he had seen two ghosts, so he immediately left his flock and ran away.

As the saying goes, the old horse knows the way, but fortunately the sheep also know the way home, and we followed the sheep for about four or five kilometers until we saw a house cut into stone in the distance.

Ai Qin and I walked around to the gate of the house, and saw that the former herdsman and his wife were arguing fiercely about something, speaking as if it were Uyghur or Tibetan, and we could not understand the exact content.

Her wife caught a glimpse of us, and the spatula in her hand fell to the ground, and the herdsman reacted and pounced on us with the long knife she had already prepared.

"Wait!" I drank him.

He was stunned for a moment, and seemed to understand Mandarin, so I seized the opportunity to hurriedly explain, "This fellow, we are not bad people, we are just lost travelers." ”

"Fellow travelers? Have you lost your donkeys? He stood still with his knife in hand, ignoring the sheep around him and asked in a non-standard Mandarin.

I saw that he probably didn't understand the explanation, so I hurriedly said, "We are lost, and we just want to ask for a glass of water." ”

He finally realized that we were not bad people, put down his knife, and muttered something to his wife, who hurriedly pointed to the house and let us in, and the herdsman hurried to cage his flock.

His wife didn't speak Mandarin, and the three of us couldn't communicate with each other for a short time, but the industrious woman knew what we needed most at the moment, and in a few moments brought flatbread and goat's milk and even a few apples from the kitchen on the side.

Ai Qin and I were also very hungry, so we were not polite at the moment, and devoured the things on the table.

As it got dark, the herdsman pushed the door open after the sheep had settled, and smiled embarrassedly at us, showing his dark teeth.

"I'm sorry to think you're a robber." He said.

"Robbers?" I was puzzled and asked, the word 'robber' in this peaceful and prosperous era is new to us.

"It's not, there are few households in this valley, and it is close to the national highway, there is a group of robbers who can be fierce, what to rob."

"In that case, why don't you move out, fellow?" Aichen asked a little strangely.

"Alas, little girl, don't you know, our ancestors have lived here for generations, why don't we move away! It's too remote here, and the population is small, and this group of robbers not only likes to rob the livestock of us herdsmen, but also likes to hijack passers-by. The police are coming, and they can't catch them all! ”

"I can't imagine anything like this shocking?!" Ai Qin couldn't help but be a little indignant.

Now I basically know where we are, it should be the location of the junction of the three provinces, no wonder there are still mountain bandits and road tyrants here, from the geographical point of view, this belongs to a place of three careless, and it is also pitiful that these simple herdsmen can only be slaughtered.

"This big brother, do you know how many people there are in this group of robbers?" I asked.

"There are seven or eight of them, and my eldest son was taken captive by them and his whereabouts are still unknown, so I mistakenly thought that you were also one of them." As he spoke, he couldn't help but think of his sadness, and his wife on the side couldn't help but shed tears.

Ai Qin, who was beside me, couldn't stand it anymore and said to me, "Brother Dezi, these people are so hateful, how can they still occupy the mountain as a king and dominate the society now." ”

I saw what Ai Qin meant, and asked, "What do you want to do?" ”

Ai Qin was also smart and did not dare to show our true identity in front of the herdsmen, and said to me, in fact, to the herdsmen, "Don't worry, let's go back and think of a way, we must destroy this gang of harmful spirits." ”

The herdsmen couldn't help but be overjoyed when they heard this, and said happily, "Thank you so much, only by destroying them can our life be really good." ”

Of course I know what Aichen means? She was thinking that I would deal with these mountain bandits and bullies in private with her, and there would be peace here.

After sleeping at night, I quietly slipped to Ai Qin's room, but she was already waiting for me at the door.

We crossed the low wall to a low-lying sand area next to the house, and when we made sure that there was no one around, I began to persuade Ai Qin, "Ai Qin, don't be presumptuous, and don't forget what our purpose is. ”

Ai Qin said very calmly, "Dezi, have you really forgotten our identity, we can't sit idly by, can you bear to watch these people being slaughtered by those bad guys?" ”

"Massacre?" I happily said, "It's not as serious as you think, if those mountain bandits kill these herdsmen, then what will they live on?" I don't think those bandits are stupid enough to do that. ”

"But even if that's the case, what about the people who pass by here? How many people come and go here without returning, why haven't you thought about this. Ai Qin said with some excitement.

"And what do you want to do?" I asked.

"I thought there were eight people in total, and the two of us should have some chance of winning." Aichen said.

"Fool, you're thinking well. Then I ask you, first, where shall we go to find them; Second, we don't have any weapons now, what can we do against them; Third, even if we find them, do we kill them on the spot or find a way to subdue them or hand them over to the local authorities? What if someone asks us who we are? ”

"This ......" Ai Qin obviously didn't think so deeply, and was stopped by me for a moment.

I sat next to her, and although we were physically and mentally exhausted, we didn't feel sleepy at all.

We didn't expect this situation, we left behind these two helpless old men, they don't know what kind of humiliation they will suffer in the future, and Ai Qin and I will not feel good in our hearts. But if we don't stay and help the herders get rid of these bullies, Aichen and I may face even more danger.

At this time, there seemed to be some movement in the house behind him, and I saw the herdsman wearing a long coat and walking out, holding two locks in his hands, he first tiptoed to lock Ai Qin's room, and then locked my room tightly, and then he actually took out a mobile phone, in the yard as if the signal was not very good, he took the mobile phone and walked towards the hillside where Ai Qin and I were.

Ai Qin and I hurriedly lowered our bodies and hid in the dark on the side, his phone seemed to be connected, his voice was originally very low, but it seemed that the other party asked him to be louder, or it was a signal problem, his voice became louder, and we heard it clearly here.

"Hey...... Feed...... Feed....... Hey, yes, it's from the valley, yes, two people, a man and a woman, like a painter, I made up a robber's nonsense to trick the two of them, well, it's locked, it's not alarmed, okay, I know, I'm waiting for you. He spoke perfectly standard Mandarin, and after hanging up the phone, he glanced around a few more times to make sure no one noticed, and then slowly returned to the house.

Ai Qin and I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, just now we were still worried about this person's life and death, but now we find that our life and death have long been taken care of by others, no wonder Fan Qunping repeatedly emphasized that the power we face is more terrible than imagined.

"Whose person is he, is he a spy of the Chen family?" Aichen asked.

"Anyone can do it!" I said, "Now, except for the Fan family, the other three families all want to find us, because they all know that the power stone is in our hands. ”

"Who's leaking the news? Or did the Fan family betray us? Aichen said.

"It shouldn't be possible for the Fan family, if he wanted to take possession of that power stone, he wouldn't have returned it to us. Don't forget that the people of the Wang family and the Zhao family are not vegetarians, some of them must have left the snow mountain alive, and they didn't see our bodies all the way, and they must have known that we escaped. I said.

Aichen nodded approvingly.

In this way, it seems that at all the exits of this snow-capped mountain, it is estimated that there are people related to the four major families waiting, and I don't know what is the situation of Quanzi and Ah Fang now, whether they have seen through the net laid by the four major families, whether they have escaped safely or have they been caught?

Ai Qin was still immersed in great panic, although she was also aware of the horror of the four major families, she did not expect it to be like this.

Ai Qin grabbed my hand and said, "It's terrible, this herdsman looks like an authentic local, I didn't expect it to be a spy, he is really well disguised, Brother Dezi, can we escape?" ”

I squeezed her hand tightly and said, "Yes, yes." Now it's time to let go of all distractions and concentrate on running away. "I was comforting Aichen at the same time as I was comforting myself.

Yes, time is pressing, we have to flee now, if we wait for the other family forces to arrive, Ai Qin and I will be in vain, no matter how good our skills are.

We saw them turn off the lights, waited a little longer to make sure they were asleep, and then slipped back into the house, but the guy probably didn't expect that Aichen and I were not in the room at all. This kind of mechanical lock is not a difficult thing for us, we picked the lock, took our things and were just about to go out, but we saw not far from the Gobi, countless car lights began to loom in the night.