Chapter 62: Meeting the Dead Again
"Ed, where are we going?" asked Beatrice after leaving the tribe, turning to Li Zijun.
"Qatar Town!" Li Zijun said unusually firmly.
Beatrice didn't say much when she heard Li Zijun's answer, and commanded the horses to gallop towards Qatar. This is also a special talent of Warcraft, they can all give orders to other animals below their level, which also makes Li Zijun always amazed!
As soon as Li Zijun and Beatrice left, Greg rushed here with his men.
Greg became a matter for Jason and Gisell, and he rushed to his uncle's tribe to confess, and did not directly participate in the massacre of the Moreton tribe.
With only a day's journey between the two tribes, Greg met up with his men to join Jason's tribe the next evening. Unexpectedly, Greg waited until the morning of the third day, and he didn't even see a single person who reported the news.
Greg was well aware that his men were highly trained professional soldiers. Even if they encounter something and need to come back later, they will definitely send someone to report it, and it is by no means like now, without any news. He couldn't sit still any longer, so he immediately gathered his troops and horses and quickly rushed towards the Morton tribe.
There is still some distance from the tribe. Greg saw two or three hundred ownerless horses, all wandering back and forth in front of the tribe's gate, but there was not half a figure on these horses! Greg had a strong and ominous premonition in his heart.
But when Greg ordered the team to speed up and reach the door of the Morton tribe, he was stunned by what he saw! hundreds of his men had completely stopped breathing, and they were all lying on the cold ground.
Greg sent to this part of the Morton tribe as his absolute cronies! Many times, Greg used these people as if they were his own soldiers. He was very familiar with everyone here, although their strength was not very high, but their ferocity and tacit understanding, even if they encountered a team several times their size, it was impossible for them not to escape even one person. What the hell had happened to them? Greg jumped off his horse to check on them, full of questions.
Seeing the scars on his hands, Greg's face became even more grim! Most of the scars on these people's bodies were extremely close to each other, and almost all of them were fatal with a single sword. And judging from these scars, they should have been killed head-on by the same weapon!
With such a result, Greg himself didn't believe in himself a little! How could this be possible? With the strength of this group of soldiers, even if the Sword Master faced them, he shouldn't have so much confidence. What did they do to anger each other that the other party would take such a big risk and attack them head-on?
"General, come and see?" a soldier retrieved the cavalry leader from among the corpses.
Greg hurried over, and he immediately saw the sword in his man's hand, which was mostly dyed red.
"You immediately see if there are any wounded people with swords around here?" Greg saw the unwilling look in the eyes of his subordinates, quickly judged that the other party was not dead, and immediately gave an order.
It didn't take long for Greg's men to not only search the room where Li Zijun was recuperating from his injuries, but also found the deserter who tried to escape and was cut off by Li Zijun.
"Archmage, how could he have an extra companion? He only made one move in the whole operation? Could it be that he had so much faith in his companion? Is his companion really a sword master?"
I really couldn't understand the reason, and Greg didn't waste time on this matter, so he followed his men into the room where Li Zijun was recuperating from his injuries. As soon as he entered the room, he immediately smelled that the whole room was filled with herbs, he touched the temperature of the quilt, and walked out of the room gloomy.
"Bring all the war horses back, and burn all the corpses here, including this tribe!"
"General, are our siblings going to be burned too?"
"Not only do we have to track down the killer immediately, but we also have other important tasks, so we don't have much time to stay here. And we brothers can't be discovered, and we can only be ashamed of them today!" Greg said with a sigh.
Greg quickly took care of the matter, and he symbolically led his men to search. Greg didn't want to face such a terrible combination, he was actually ready to give up the pursuit of the murderer, but in order to give an explanation to his subordinates, he made a show! After the full play, Greg returned to the station with his subordinates, and continued to escort Gongmi into Beijing, but at the same time, he reported in detail to Uncle Lev about the situation encountered here, and asked Uncle Huang to send someone to investigate this strange incident.
Three days later, Li Zijun's broken ribs have been basically connected, and the other injuries have entered the stage of recovery. Even many of the scabs began to fall off, and only the two deep scars under the ribs and on the chest would still cause him a dull pain, so that his left arm could not move freely for the time being.
"Look at you thin and weak, I didn't expect your body to be stronger than our Demonic Beast! At your current recovery rate, you will be able to fully recover in ten days at most. Your miraculous healing method is really effective!" Beatrice couldn't help but exclaim when she saw Li Zijun recover so quickly.
"Thanks to your timely treatment, otherwise it would have been difficult for me to get through this time!" Li Zijun reluctantly sat up from the carriage and sighed as he gently stroked Beatrice's tails.
When Li Zijun's palm touched Beatrice's tail, she paused slightly, and Li Zijun felt her body tremble slightly.
"What's wrong with you?" asked Li Zijun puzzled.
"Ah, nothing! just suddenly feeling a little sick. Beatrice replied, dodging Li Zijun's eyes.
"What's wrong? Are you alright?"
"It's okay! It's okay! Why were you so impulsive that day, facing three hundred well-trained cavalrymen alone, I thought you were a little crazy!" Beatrice hurriedly changed the subject.
"I was a little impulsive! When I saw Morton hanging on the pole of the gate, and those simple, kind herdsmen were slaughtered, I felt all my blood rush to the top of my head, and I forgot about the danger, so I just killed it without heeding!"
"At this point, I remembered that those soldiers were really brave and tenacious! In the face of our combined attack, they fought until Zuihou, during which only one of them chose to escape. Who is it that has trained such an iron-blooded team? I've become interested in that general. ”
"That's why you're rushing to a small town in Qatar?"
"This can only be regarded as one of the reasons! Such a well-trained team killed Morton and his men, and even Zuihou slaughtered the entire tribe, we can say that they were in revenge for Jason and Gishel. But I don't understand, they still want to rob Gongmi?"
"You know, although these rice are tribute, they are not really of much value. In other words, they must have other purposes for robbing Gongmi!"
"If they hadn't hurt my friends, I wouldn't have had the slightest interest in their jihua! But now it's different, Morton is dead! His tribe has been slaughtered. I'm not going to let them do it easily!"
"Then you think they're going to a small town in Qatar too?"
"The town of Qatar is the assembly place of the Gongmi team, so the tribes that transport the Gongmi will gather there, and then they will rush to the capital together. The group of soldiers who robbed Morton Gongmi, they will definitely appear in that place too!" Li Zijun said firmly. It's just that Li Zijun didn't notice the lost eyes of Beatrice beside him.
The journey was relatively smooth, Li Zijun and Beatrice did not encounter any more dangers, and finally came to the outside of Qatar Town.
Li Zijun's injuries have recovered, as long as it is not particularly intense activity, the scars on his chest and under his ribs are not too much of a problem. He was about to swing his horsewhip into Qatar Town when Beatrice suddenly stopped him.
"You're so ugly, I'd better give you a different look!"
"Okay!" Li Zijun said in surprise. Everyone has a love for beauty, and Li Zijun is certainly not an exception! He has asked Beatrice many times because of his appearance. But Beatrice always prevaricates him with various excuses, and Zuihou has no choice but to accept the way he is.
Unexpectedly, Beatrice didn't know which tendon was wrong today, and suddenly offered to help Li Zijun change his appearance. Li Zijun was worried that Beatrice had changed her mind, so he hurriedly nodded in agreement.
"What do you want to become?" Beatrice's question calmed Li Zijun. His purpose this time was to find the man who had ordered the killing of Morton and the extermination of the Moreton tribe. Therefore, he can't let his appearance be too special, but he doesn't have a certain idea of what it should look like.
Li Zijun suddenly looked up and saw the horse in front of him, and he immediately had an idea.
"You're turning me into an ordinary coachman, are you okay?"
Beatrice asked Li Zijun to take out the remaining disguise grass in the space ring, recalled the appearance of the coachman she had seen these days, and began to change Li Zijun's image.
It wasn't long before a tall coachman with a yellow-looking face appeared on the road. Although Li Zijun is much stronger than the previous appearance this time, he can still only be regarded as an ordinary person, and Beatrice is still unwilling to make him too handsome.
Li Zijun saw his appearance clearly through the stream outside the town, although he was still not satisfied, but it was much stronger than before, and he did not dare to express different opinions, and was ready to enter Qatar Town with Beatrice.
"Ed, I can't continue to follow you!" Beatrice said suddenly, looking at Li Zijun.
"Weishenme?" Li Zijun asked as he looked at Beatrice in surprise.
"I'm about to advance, I have to go back to the Warcraft Forest!"
"And this kind of thing, I've never heard you mention it?"
"Before, I thought it would be some more time before I advanced, but now it doesn't seem to be too far! Therefore, I must rush back to the Warcraft Forest before I can advance. Beatrice actually had an idea, but she didn't want to tell Li Zijun in advance until the idea came to fruition. Therefore, she found such an excuse to prevaricate Li Zijun.
"Is that really the case?"
Beatrice forced herself to face Li Zijun and nodded.
"Will you come back again?" After this period of getting along, Li Zijun no longer thinks that Beatrice is his magic pet, and he regards Beatrice as his best friend. At this time, Beatrice suddenly said that she was leaving, and Li Zijun felt very reluctant in his heart. But Beatrice's reason made it impossible for him to stop him, and he had to look at Beatrice expectantly, hoping to get a positive answer from her mouth.
"Maybe, as long as I can get through this, I'll come out to see you. But if I fail to advance this time, even if I can survive, I won't be able to leave the Warcraft Forest again. When the time comes, you'll forget about me!" Beatrice said this, and tears flowed uncontrollably.
"Don't cry! you will definitely make the cut!" Seeing Beatrice crying, Li Zijun was also a little anxious, and he hurriedly poured Beatrice into his arms. But I don't know weishenme, at this moment Li Zijun felt a little strange, as if it was a little different from usual!
Looking at Beatrice's back as she continued to move away, Li Zijun sighed deeply, and then drove the carriage into Qatari town.
At the moment when Li Zijun turned around, Beatrice turned her body and watched him enter the Qatar town, and then reluctantly turned to the direction of the Warcraft Forest.
Since the tribute rice is sent to the capital through Qatar every year, many traders come here in order to provide for the travelers who pass through here. Over time, this place gradually formed into a small town, which is also the origin of Qatar.
There is only one main road in the small town of Qatar, all the shops and restaurants are on both sides of this road, and the only big car shop is just about to leave the town. Li Zijun drove the carriage and came directly to this big car shop.
To Li Zijun's surprise, this huge car shop was actually full. Although the people who live here seem to be ordinary herdsmen on the surface, Li Zijun can find from their gestures that they have too obvious military temperament. Moreover, these people have cold eyes and bloody breath on their bodies, they should be a group of battle-hardened veterans.
Judging from the performance of these people, their movements are concise and powerful, and their weapons are extremely standardized, even compared with the elite of the border passes led by Li Zijun before!
Will they appear in such a large number in this place in Qatar? This is not a border town! Li Zijun felt that the smell of conspiracy was getting stronger and stronger.
Li Zijun originally wanted to rush here and find the Tibetan general who killed Morton and kill him, so as to complete his friendship with Morton during this time. He didn't expect to encounter such a thing, and while he was on strong guard, he also became interested in it, and now he wanted to stay and see what these people wanted to do.
Li Zijun led the horses to the camp outside the town, and many herders set up their tents on both sides of the town in order to save some money. Over time, such a campsite was formed at the entrance of the town.
Seeing the situation in the camp, Li Zijun was even more shocked! The camp was already full of tents. Although the tents may seem to be diverse and unrelated to each other, the neat arrangement betrays their identity.
The big car shop plus the soldiers living in this camp, Li Zijun roughly calculated, at least more than 10,000 people. This is definitely an organized, disciplined military operation!
Since the two neighbors of the Tibetan Empire were at war with the Dongyu Empire some time ago, this also made the borders of the Tibetan Empire very calm. And the weather is gradually getting a little cooler, and it is no longer suitable for large-scale battles. But at this time, the Tibetan Empire was secretly mobilizing troops, such a phenomenon was by no means unusual, and Li Zijun became more and more curious about the situation in front of him. He chose a corner and pitched his tent there. Beatrice prepared a tent and enough food for Li Zijun in the carriage, so that even if he lived here, he would not be starved and cold.
Seeing things and thinking about people, Li Zijun couldn't help but think of Beatrice who was rushing to the Warcraft Forest. And Beatrice also felt the longing in Li Zijun's heart, glanced affectionately in the direction of Qatar, gritted her teeth and turned away.
Li Zijun arranged the tent, untied the horse from the carriage, and rode the horse back to the town. The grassland is not the same paradise, and of course there will be thieves and robbers. It's just that the things in Li Zijun's tent and carriage are really worthless, so he doesn't have to worry too much.
After Li Zijun returned to the small town of Qatar. I chose a small restaurant that suited my current status, tied my horse to the door, and walked straight into this restaurant.
Like the small town in Qatar, the restaurant is full of seats, with hardly a single vacancy. Li Zijun looked around for a while before finding a corner facing the wall. There are so many people here, and Li Zijun has no other choice, so he has to sit down.
Although there are a lot of people in the restaurant today, the service level of this restaurant is still very good. As soon as Li Zijun sat down, a guy came to him and helped him order.
Li Zijun casually ordered two dishes, in order not to attract the attention of the people around him, although he didn't like to drink, but in order to cater to his identity, he ordered a glass of the worst liquor.
After the guy left, Li Zijun began to pay attention to the situation around him. Due to the location, he uses his ears more to search for suspicious situations around him.
"Big brother, the general asked us to wait here, but it's been more than ten days, why hasn't the general shown up?" A deep voice caught Li Zijun's attention.
"What's in a hurry! Isn't there a few days left before the general's appointed day?"
Li Zijun noticed that there were a pair of people who looked like small leaders three or four tables away from him, and the words he heard came from their mouths.
"No! Big brother, it is a great crime to mobilize the border army in vain! It is to be beheaded all over the house! I still don't know what the general is going to do, I am really a little worried!"
"What kind of heart! When did the general make us suffer? You just put your heart in your stomach. The general is in charge of the defense of the border passes, and if anything really happens, I won't blame you!"
"Don't talk about it, there are many people here, and I'll talk about it when I go back!" The man stopped the person on the other side from continuing, and immediately settled the account and left.
Although he only heard a few words, Li Zijun had basically guessed the outline of the matter.
Li Zijun had previously known about the current situation of the Zangbei Empire, and since the death of the old emperor of Zangbei, the power in the Zangbei Empire was divided into three parts. Among them, Uncle Lev is the strongest, controlling nearly forty percent of the army of the Tibetan Empire, while Lawrence, the young emperor of Tibet, is second, occupying thirty percent of the strength; Mario Uncle has twenty percent of the soldiers of the Tibetan Empire; and the remaining one percent is controlled by those scattered nobles, who do not support anyone, they are more like a group of wall grass, which side is hard and falls to whichever side is hard.
Mario has always supported the young Emperor Lawrence, which also gives Lawrence a very slim advantage, but there is nothing they can do with each other, and they maintain this delicate balance.
This time, the border army appeared here, it must be that one of the three people is unwilling to maintain it like this, they should be ready to replace the ordinary troops who originally held grain with these troops, and even those herdsmen who sent grain will be replaced. Under the pretext of escorting tribute rice, he secretly mobilized the elite army to the capital, and finally achieved the goal of the coup.
Li Zijun had just thought of this, and the guy had already brought the two dishes he ordered, and a glass of inferior wine with a pungent taste was also placed in front of him.
Originally, Li Zijun didn't like to drink, and such a glass of wine almost directly ruined his appetite, he frowned and pushed him farther away, and then began to taste the food of this restaurant.
I have to admit that although the wine here is much worse, the chef's craftsmanship is definitely commendable, which makes Li Zijun feast.
Just when Li Zijun was about to call the gang to settle accounts and leave, suddenly a person who surprised him walked in slowly.
Although Li Zijun had only seen this person once, and it had been many years, Li Zijun still recognized this person at first sight, this person was Meredith, the head of the Dark Moon God Sect in the Seine Peninsula back then!
As soon as Meredith walked into the restaurant, Li Zijun subconsciously avoided his gaze, and then he thought that he had grown a lot taller now, and his appearance had been disguised, and Meredith couldn't recognize him at all, and he couldn't help but laugh at his weak heart.
Back then, Meredith was also regarded as a relatively important figure in the Dark Moon God Cult, although he lost face due to the events of the Seine Peninsula, but his appearance in Qatar Town at this sensitive period has already shown that he is not simple! And the person next to him is obviously not low, and looking at that person's attitude towards Meredith also proves Meredith's identity from the other side.
Seeing this, Li Zijun temporarily dismissed the idea of leaving, and sat back in his seat, ready to find out why Meredith appeared here.