The presence of the Absgunti in this team is a good explanation of how they were able to catch up with their own side so quickly after a slow start - one thing is the world's best stamina and tracking ability, and the other is the presence of the Absgunti, these steppe cavalry can carry almost no supplies. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The forests at the foot of the Tambul Mountains are also tropical, and the vegetation and creatures around Kursimu and Soladin are not much different, so for the Absgunti, coming to Soladin is like returning to their home.

Edible plants, where they appear, what are their habits, the leaves of this plant are tough and sharp enough to be used as a knife for cutting, this plant is torn to make baskets and ropes, this plant grows nuts on it, this plant provides the fat for burning - With this knowledge, the Absgunti barely need to carry any provisions, except for their favorite bows and poisoned arrows, and they only wear the thinnest pieces of animal skins, so it can be said that they are the ones who truly live in the wilderness compared to any mercenaries and adventurers in any civilized world.

The weight lost without having to carry survival supplies, coupled with excellent tracking ability, and the strong endurance of high-quality steppe horses, combined with a series of factors that together determine the fact that even our Sage Mr. still can't shake off the other party in all kinds of adverse situations - this is a euphemism, to put it mildly, he carries two oil bottles.

She doesn't have much combat experience, and even if she escaped in the past, she was protected by Victoria and others, and even if our Mila has become much more mature than before after a year of study, she is still limited by age and experience after all, even if she learns quickly, nothing can be reached in one step.

In short, if they did not want to be shot, they had to choose to surrender, and after dismounting, the three men were disarmed by these steppe cavalry, leaving only the most basic clothes, and then tied their hands behind their backs, tied them with thick hemp rope, and walked back to the south with their team, walking for half a day, until the evening slowed down and prepared to camp.

After successfully capturing the three of them, the group, led by the noble maiden of the steppe, slowed down at the right time, and they rode on horseback, while the three of Henry were on foot. The reins of their two horses were tied together and held tightly by a steppe warrior to act as pack horses—a sign of the professionalism and care of the men, who had no intention of getting them back on horseback, even with their hands tied behind their backs. Although this would increase the speed of the team's advance and return to Absela as soon as possible, they were obviously still worried that the very obedient warhorses would be commanded by Henry or Mira to escape.

Horses are intelligent creatures, and those who get along with them day and night and are skilled in horsemanship can sit firmly in the saddle with their thighs and hips, without having to grasp the reins with both hands. Therefore, these steppe cavalrymen, who had been dealing with horses for an unknown number of years, decisively separated the three from their horses and walked in the front and back of the team respectively to prevent them from using their horses to escape.

This was certainly a vigilance measure, but at the same time, it also provided some clues to the sages - these people did not want to kill them, at least not yet.

He began to observe the team's matching, and the expression on his face did not change at all, but the corner of his eye kept paying attention to everyone's every move, and did not miss any details.

Henry, who was apparently a steppe noblewoman of Absgunti mixed race, heard them call her "Muna", which means "hope" or "wish" in Sumu, apparently with some kind of beautiful vision placed on her by the person who named her. All in all, Muna looks like the leader of a team of more than a dozen people, she is not much older than Mira, but the environment of the grassland is harsher than the West Coast, and children of this age are actually considered adults and can marry, so it is not surprising that she naturally leads a team out.

Muna's attire was typical of the children of the steppe nobility - animal skins with blue-green grass juice and red iron oxide-dyed multicolored coarse cloth, and the steppe people did not have the colorful fabrics of the southern borders and the major empires, so they could only work on the existing animal skins and coarse cloth processing techniques to create luxurious clothes for the nobles to wear. The carefully tanned lambskin is close to the body and soft, and the colorful coarse cloth is used as a decoration on the waist to reflect the national customs, coupled with a copper knife chain on the waist that looks likely to have been recast after seizure, and a dark green dragon lizard skin scabbard with ivory carved knife handle and a small steppe scimitar with gems on the handle, all reflect that the girl came from a far larger and richer ethnic group than the Aries clan.

But I am afraid that it was her relationship with the Absgunti that interested Henry more than that—these short, thin, brown-skinned hunters, you can hardly tell how old they were, and an Absgunti in his twenties and thirties looked the same as a fifty or sixty-year-old Absgunti, except that when they gathered around to talk to Muna, Henry could clearly see that the noble girl had a kind of respect and closeness for all four of them like a granddaughter to her grandfather.

In addition, the twelve steppe warriors are also a little different from the ordinary steppe warriors, such as those warriors under the command of the Aries clan Khalid or the red-billed finch Albenny, although they are nominally under their command, but in fact these people have their own aristocratic status, that is to say, they only "follow" the leaders of the higher classes, and are not completely strictly subordinate to the common commoners and nobles. This was widespread among the middle and lower clans of Absera, where many of the clans were in danger because of their constant battles with foreign armies or wars against each other, and when they perished, the samurai could not have taken the word of the patriarch and sent them to death.

If they didn't form a family within the clan, they could even choose whether they wanted to stay or leave - a delicate relationship very similar to that of mercenaries and employers, except that instead of money, the samurai received a place of residence and glory - and in other words, the steppe warriors under the command of Muna showed a completely different spirit than those who were just ordinary and obeyed orders.

The first is the uniformity of clothing, in a place like the steppe, where the environment is harsh and the technology is poor, to be able to make equipment similar in appearance, it is obviously necessary to be a large clan of considerable strength - in addition to clothing, decoration, hairstyle, and even height and body shape are quite similar, this behavior that makes the warriors look similar Henry is very familiar, and there is a similar design in the legions of the Padrosi and the Lamanite Empire. This erasure of their individuality and making them look like mass-produced items is intended to allow the warriors to sharpen their edges and become more obedient and efficient elite troops, and the absolute obedience and natural defense they exhibit to the leader Muna is also consistent with this characteristic.

-- Selecting boys of the right age and physique from other conquered clans, the elite of the elite, Henry's eyes narrowed slightly.

Muna's identity was not just a steppe clan, she was probably the recognized owner of the royal blood of the steppe people who had unified most of the steppe in the past—and such a captive wanted to put them to use, and the relationship between her and the Absgunti was more or less speculative in the sage's mind.

After all, the royal family everywhere is the same, and there is only one thing that they want.

Knowing that he was invincible, and judging the identity of the other party and what he wanted from his movements and demeanor, as well as the content of the conversation, even though he was still in the form of meat on a chopping block where his movements were unarmed and his movements were restricted, the sage still maintained his calm, not as faintly or visibly panicked as the two Luoan girls.

The sun was setting, and they were camped on the edge of a wood. Two Absgunti men with half of their guards went deeper into the woods, apparently in search of some food, while the rest, including Muna, began to set up horses and set up camp. They behaved as if they were at home in this area very close to the south of Soladin, and it was not difficult to think of the reason for the fact that the army stationed in the castle before was like frightened birds, and Muna, who was bending down to add wood to the campfire, seemed to notice the look in Henry, who was leaning on the trunk of a tree not far away, looking at this side, and she understood that the sage was lamenting the calmness of her group, so she happily showed her little tiger teeth and said with a smile: " I'm disappointed in my own people, mercenary, that's right, you're the inhabitants of this kind of cowardice. ”

"How can you, who live in a plain with a mild climate and fertile soil, huddle in a castle made of stone, and think that you can rest easy, as mild as a domestic animal, like a sheep, like the people of Buka. Muna said as she referred to Buka, a large, gregarious dragon lizard that infested the Kursim region, the tough-skinned owner of her scabbard The scientific name is the Kursimu spotted dragon lizard, this gray-green skin and black vertical striped dragon lizard is strong, running fast and surprisingly fast even brown bears will fear its existence, it is the totem of many nomads on the Kulsim side, believing that they are natural hunters who swim under the sky like these dragon lizards, and can easily kill sedentary peoples who are as weak as sheep and lack of guard.

"......" Henry didn't respond to Muna's taunt, just shrugged his shoulders. The campfires began to grow stronger, the winter daylight was short, the sky was rapidly darkening, and the eight men who had gone out hunting brought back a lot of fruit, only a short hour or two, and even the best hunters were obviously not always able to get meat, Muna glanced back, and then the short black eyebrows on the typical brown-skinned face of the steppe man wrinkled together.

"If you don't run away in the morning, we'll have wild boar to eat by this time—" "Hmph!" she kicked a small stone away with some annoyance, which gave our Sage some more information: the noble lady of the steppe man obviously had little experience in tracking, and could not afford setbacks and failures - like the gentlemen elsewhere - and that she had led the dozen men to follow her party, and it was evident that impulse was more likely than planning.

"Obviously, you will still be caught in the end, what's the point of running away, mercenary, the sheep's resistance is powerless, and if you don't resist, you won't cause trouble. Muna continued to babble in Lamani, her Lamanite language was very standard and fluent, and it sounded like it was used often, which was very much in line with the characteristics of the steppe people of the Kursimu region, and the experience of fighting the Lamanite countries south of Ottolo for many years had naturally had peaceful exchanges between the two sides, and in any case, as a high-ranking nobleman of the steppe, being proficient in Lamani was a necessary talent. Henry continued to parse the image of the aristocratic girl, while gesturing with his fingers behind her with her fingers in both hands.

Simple sign language does not need to be specially trained to have basic comprehension skills to be able to understand, it is getting late, Luo An girl's actions to look behind her teacher were not noticed by Mu Na in front of her, she secretly remembered it in her heart, and then moved closer to Lena's side.

"Well, anyway, you've been caught by us now, and you're going to return to Kulsimu with us. After a little dissatisfaction, Muna began to be proud of her steppe origins again: "I will give you something to eat tonight, but you don't want to sleep in the house that the inhabitants like, I say this is your ill, isn't it? ”

"Tsk, even those who have had too much contact with merchants have gradually become the virtue of pleasure, and gradually faded from the ferocity of being a citizen of Buka, and became sheep to be slaughtered like a resident of the country. The fact that so many words were uttered to a stranger on the first day of the meeting provided more clues to our Sage's refinement of the image of this noble lady of the steppe, and she went on and on: "The real steppe people sleep on horseback outside, outside, facing the stars and Mother Nature. ”

"A true steppe man will pay attention to even the smallest barking and the crowing of insects like a buka, and will never sleep like a sheep-like settler—" she said, drawing closer and closer: "We will use all our strength against even the weakest enemy, and we will use the strongest ropes and knots to bind even the weakest woman. ”

"Stupid and cowardly, as unwary as sheep, you-" "Well, it's quite sturdy""-uh?" Henry, who had been silent and had only allowed Muna to express her opinion, suddenly spoke, causing the noble lady of the steppe to be stunned for a moment, and the sage smiled at her, and continued:

"It's pretty sturdy, it took me so long to unravel. ”

"Smack-" Like an attacking pit viper, the sage caught Muna who was too close.

"Qiang-" The steppe warriors who reacted quickly drew their scimitars, and the Absgunti in the distance also stared at this side with worried expressions, they were menacing, but as Henry expected, no one dared to come forward.

"Don't worry, I just wanted to talk. He said this in a calm tone as always, in order to ensure that everyone could understand the Sumu language, while Mira behind her pushed Lena with her body and hid near Henry, who was holding Muna hostage, as planned, to prevent the two of them from becoming hostages and becoming each other's weights. (To be continued.) )