Occasionally, there is a brief retraction of consciousness...... Then it dissipated.

Mental disorder, sometimes convulsions of the limbs.

Faintly, I heard the muttering of the difficult language of the Western Regions, as if someone was carrying him on his back, walking through the mountains and forests, and soon there was a rustling sound.

It was like walking in the Gobi Desert, with the warm wind and sand on the face, and the short consciousness made the unconscious figure open his eyes, camels, tents, and grass clippings rolled in the wind and sand.

"Help me send a message to Dayan Xia ......"

"Who are you...... What are you talking about? ”

“…… King Xia, my master Zhang Dongshan...... National Teacher ...... Zhang Jiao is in trouble......"

"I don't understand what you're talking about!!"

The man from the Western Regions who was carrying him on his back was also shouting, and then led the camel and rushed into the camp in front, and the women and children inside greeted him with smiling faces and took the food brought back by the man.

Soon after, the unconscious man was brought in and placed in a tent.

On the desert night, the cold wind whined and blew harder.

At night, the silhouette of the hill was soaked in the cold moonlight, and outside the tent was the rustle of the wind whipped up the gravel.

In the quiet camp, in the tent on one side, a slightly painful moan gradually sounded.

The cold moonlight shone through the unruly felt curtains, and the tent was a mess of piles of baggage, tattered clay pots, and a bloody camel's fur.

The unconscious figure lay on it, moaning unconsciously, sweaty cheeks swaying, strands of hair sticking to his face.

"Master......"

"I'm not leaving...... I'm not going...... Don't touch my Master! ”

"Thief! Despicable! ”

With a sudden shout, the sleepy figure lying on the camel's fur opened its eyes suddenly, sat up suddenly, and looked at the slightly blown felt curtain opposite.

When he came back to his senses, he staggered to his feet, dragged his exhausted body, opened the felt curtain, and the night wind swept the gravel and whimpered in his face with a 'buzz' whimper, and the whole person staggered back two steps.

The tent in the middle had been opened at this time, and the people from the Western Regions who had rescued him before, wrapped in a camel fur, rushed over in the wind and sand, and after getting into the tent here, they quickly closed the door curtain again.

He also muttered something in his mouth, but unfortunately the Xia people behind him couldn't understand it.

And what the other party said, he didn't understand, this is the most difficult thing on both sides, he wanted to know, how did this Xia country people appear in Tianfeng Ridge, there is a high-altitude mountain, only the people who live here will go up the mountain to pick some herbs and exchange some food with the market below, or hunt some small prey, improve the food of the family.

The most important point is that Tianfeng Ridge went west, and it was another world, he had found a shortcut to turn over once ten years ago, and he saw the people in the world over there, and they looked a little similar to them, but the language was not clear, and he was worried that the other party had bad intentions, so he peeked at it from a distance for a while, and went back along the way he came.

He hadn't set foot there since, and he had never told anyone else about the shortcut.

Although the people of the Western Regions sometimes traded with the West, it was only on the highway, and if such a shortcut was known, it was inevitable that more traders would come over.

It seems that they will be profitable, but small herders like them are likely to be forced to leave their current homes and make room for each other to trade.

"I can't speak the Chinese language, can you understand, or understand my gestures? My name is Zaha...... Stab! Ha! ”

Although the man from the Western Regions kept gesturing with gestures, the man over there only understood the other party's name as Zaha, and also learned the other party's last gesture, emphasizing his name: Li Chaofu.

Here, Zaha really didn't have a trick, he sat down cross-legged in frustration, and suddenly thought of something, he quickly got up and got out again, and came back after a while, he had an extra book in his hand.

"I gave a Xia country caravan directions, and they gave me a lot of words on it, I don't know it, you should understand it."

Li Chaofu naturally couldn't understand this series of Western Regions dialects, but he could understand the title of the book written on the book cover in the other party's hand.

"My Huaxia?"

He hurriedly took the book from Zaha's hand, and Zaha was distressed here, and reluctantly lit an oil lamp for the man to illuminate him.

"Liang Guo is gone...... King Xia dominates the six kingdoms?! ”

Li Chaofu, who was originally quietly reading the contents of the book, showed a surprised expression in his heart and on his face, he was a native of Liang State, and the general of Yan State called King Xia During that time, he followed the caravan to do business outside the Western Regions.

This trip has been several years, walking through mountains and grasslands, and even passing through two different countries, originally thinking that this time I will return with a full load.

But later, the world in the west was not peaceful, and there were many rebel armies inexplicably, and then, a powerful country further west attacked the country where he was trading.

In the midst of the chaos, he actually met two old men here, rescued him, and continued to travel in this world together.

During the time that Li Chaofu got along, he found that these two old people were not ordinary people, so he had the idea of wanting to apprentice.

Among them, the old man named Zhang Jiao did not pay attention to him, but just traveled and wrote down everything he saw and encountered here, including customs and geography.

Vaguely, Li Chaofu also heard that the two seemed to have mentioned the word immortality.

This strengthened his idea of apprenticeship, but after two years of getting along, one of the old men named Zhang Dongshan was moved by his obsession, so he received his knee and became a disciple.

I thought that I would just travel around like this, and then, follow the master and that Zhang Jiao to find the 'immortality' I wanted, and then return to the Liang Kingdom.

But then something happened......

Li Chaofu closed his eyes, cut off the memories in his mind, and then closed the book, his cheeks bulging and his teeth clenched.

He is a native of Liang country, grew up in Liang country, and naturally has feelings for it.

After going out this time, he came back and became a native of Xia Guo, and the original determination of the master to ask him to bring the words to him was a little shaken at this moment because of the destruction of the Liang Kingdom.

For a while, Li Chaofu didn't convey what he wanted to express to the people in the Western Regions who saved him, but just sat on the camel fur in a daze.

Zaha sat aside, dozing off, and slowly fell asleep.

The next day, Zaha woke up, and the Xia Guoren who he rescued was still sitting outside the tent and didn't know what to think.

"Don't think about it, coming alive from Tianfeng Mountain is a gift from God to you, you should enjoy the good days to the fullest, just like after the wind and sand, it is a good time to be sunny."

The enthusiastic Zaha went to his tent, asked his wife to make a hearty breakfast, and pulled Li Chaofu to eat and drink, and soon after, Li Chaofu gestured, wanting Zaha to take him to Tianfeng Mountain again.

He wants to leave here, anyway, there is no family and country left, he doesn't want to help the enemy, for the master, then use his own life to save it.

Zaha, who did not know what he meant, did not hesitate to take some dry food into the mountains and a very vigilant camel, and set foot on the southern section of the majestic and towering snow-capped mountains in the west again.

The temperature in Tianfengling is low and the air is thin.

Zaha, who came up with fur, gave one to Li Chaofu, and the two of them covered with camel fur and walked hard in the mountains, and the camels that came with them were not the kind of adult camels, and they followed the two meekly, chewing the leaves around them while walking.

After a while, both of them were exhausted and found a place to sit down and rest, Zaha wiped his sweat and looked around, all of them were dense mountain forests, and the leaves rattled in the wind and then fell down.

At the end of the view, there are rocks covered with snow and frost, and there are few people here, and there is hardly any trace of people walking on them.

He didn't know what Li Chaofu was going to do here, and he couldn't understand the language, so he had to give up if he wanted to ask.

After resting for a while, Zaha was about to get up and continue to lead the way, when Li Chaofu, who had been silent there, grabbed him and gestured, probably meaning to let Zaha get here, thank him for leading the way, and he walked alone for the rest of the way.

Without waiting for the other party to understand, Li Chaofu smiled at him, carried the burden of dry food, and turned around and walked towards the dense forest in front.

When Zaha caught up, Li Chaofu in front suddenly stopped, squatted on the ground, turned around and 'shhh

Zaha was quick to react, and while crouching down, he also made a gesture to the camel behind him, and after training, the camel stopped grinding his thick lips, bent down on all fours, and fell to his knees.

"What did you find?"

"Don't talk!"

Li Chaofu didn't understand, but he still scolded the other party.

The next moment, in the mountains and forests, there was a sound of 'popping' wings flapping, and flocks of birds flew out from the western foothills, covering their vision like the sky and the sun.

Zaha hurriedly closed his mouth, his breathing nostrils fanned one by one, and his chest rose and fell violently at this moment, as a herdsman, he was born with a sense of alertness.

Between the towering mountains, the faint sound of footsteps was heard shortly after the birds passed.

Zaha crawled to Li Chaofu's side and took a few steps forward with the other man, burrowing into the bushes in front of him, and brushing away the leaves that blocked his view.

A 'long dragon' winds its way from afar, spreading along the mountain, as if the mountains are avoiding it.

The sound of footsteps, weapons, and armor clashing continued.

And the two people here gritted their teeth and didn't dare to make a sound, and in the oppressive atmosphere, the ground under them trembled slightly in the roaring footsteps and horses' hooves.

Then they saw flags waving in the wind.

I didn't have time to look at what was drawn on it, but I saw that the torrent-like team had entered their field of vision and advanced towards this direction.

"Army...... The army that pursued the Master......"

At the same time as Li Chaofu muttered, Zaha, who had never seen the world next to him, trembled like a sieve.

"They're coming, they're going to cross Tianfeng Ridge!"

The atmosphere was depressed to the extreme, Zaha wanted to get up and run down the mountain, but was held down by Li Chaofu, once he got up, he would inevitably be discovered, and the two of them would definitely die.

At the moment, he could only look motionless at the foothills of the mountains in the distance, and the road that the army stepped out from below stretched towards the east of Tianfeng Ridge.

The sun overhead was slightly tilted, and the army had only completed the rugged, inaccessible mountains.

Wow~

With the soft sound of leaves, Li Chaofu burrowed out of the bushes and ran quickly behind the army, Zaha leading the camel behind him.

When the two of them came to the bottom of the mountainside and walked out of the dense coniferous forest, the distance opened up in the field of vision, and an ominous picture came into view.

In the distance, black smoke rose from the camp where Zaha lived, and farther away, several similar camps also rose with black smoke.

In the desert at dusk, the crowd of black oppressors gathered there, and there was a faint sound of rampant laughter.

"Nope! No! ”

Zaha let go of the camel and ran down the hill with his cloak scattered, and when he fell, he got up again, ignoring his broken knees and elbows, and the further he went, the more tears fell.

By the time the two of them rushed back to the camp, it had been razed to the ground, and the army that had descended the mountain had gone far away.

"Hana! Uji! ”

Zaha rushed into the camp crying out, there were burning flames everywhere, all the tents were burned, and the few camels and yaks that had been raised for many years were left with bones and fur on the ground.

His wife and children were nowhere to be seen, except for a shaved calf bone in a burning tent......

"Ahh

Zaha rushed into the fire to pick up the leg bone, Li Chaofu pulled him out and extinguished the flames on his body, but Zaha didn't seem to know the pain, so he held the bone in his arms and knelt on the ground crying.

Li Chaofu could tell from the length of the bones, and he was so cleanly shaved, how could he not know what was going on.

On the western side, he had heard some rumors of barbarians, some of whom liked to treat people as livestock and put them on the table......

As for Zaha's wife, there are no bones here, which means that she was taken captive to the army, and the result is probably worse than that of a child.

That's a bunch of beasts.

"Tell the Great Xia Emperor...... Tell him that a cannibalistic army is here......"

At this point, the grief of the ruin of his country was suppressed by Zaha's cries, and instead he wanted the army to be punished as it deserved.

……

The western clouds are dyed a magnificent orange red.

Between the sky and the yellow sand, there was wind and sand blowing again, a brown-yellow war horse slowly stepped on the hot gravel, a burly and tall figure, sitting on the back of the horse, slightly curly long hair hanging down on the leather jacket on both shoulders, the face was full of beard shaking, the lips had a layer of oil, and was chewing a slender arm.

Blood spilled from the corners of his mouth as his yellowed eyes narrowed, as if he had found new prey in the distance.

At one point, he grabbed a severed arm and raised it.

"Follow the caravan ahead and find the city here, tonight we will party in the city and enjoy the meat here!"

Behind him, on the golden sand, was a group of figures drinking Mao Ru's blood, black pressure formed a wave of thick legs on the desert and ran forward, under the long hair blown by the wind, there were hideous faces painted with war paints.

Like a wild beast, it opened its bloody mouth and let out a savage cry.

Before dark, the desert frenzy rushed towards a Western Regions earthen city that had just experienced war.

Still in a state of bewilderment, the soldiers of the Western Regions in the city, as well as the caravans, came with a barbaric crowd in the sight.

In an hour, a raging fire began to burn in the city, and countless miserable cries resounded through this desert oasis.

The next day, 30,000 troops swooped down on the next prey, leaving only the ruined walls and bones in the ground.

The Middle Road of the Western Regions is a place with a dense number of caravans, and the tragic slaughter cannot be concealed at all, not to mention that the caravans and villages in the oasis in the past have almost been slaughtered, and the corpses and bones of people and animals are everywhere.

Those who escaped by luck spread the news, and then frantically spread it in all directions.

……

The queen of Yelan Kingdom, who was trying to find a way to deal with the upcoming Western Regions Protectorate, received this news, but before she could delve, Ugo had a messenger coming.

"What? Ugo is going to unite this foreign army?! Itas pinched the letter and stood up straight from the throne.

(End of chapter)