The sun shines brightly in the east, and the morning light pours down through the clouds, reflecting the golden ripples of the desert.

As soon as the day dawned, the old donkey excitedly stepped on the smoke of the bonfire left last night, waking everyone up to set off for a hurry, the four scholars yawned and stretched their waists, Lu Liangsheng moved his muscles, squinted at the golden sunshine, and turned around to find that in the small door of the bookshelf, the master's head was wrapped in a bow wrapped in bandages at some point, and he was sitting cross-legged on the small bed with his chin propped.

"Master, after breakfast and then set off, it's still ......"

"Don't eat!" The toad Taoist reached out and grabbed the small door, closed it with a bang, and the four people over there looked at me, I looked at you, and finally fell on Lu Liangsheng, who shook his head with a smile, and took out the steamed buns he bought in Karabusa before and distributed them to them, "It's better to eat while walking on the road." ”

When going out, the four people over there are also weathered, and it is common to make do with a meal, take the 'steamed bun' and pack the pots and bowls neatly, Lu Liangsheng placed the bookshelf, looked up at the rising sun, pulled up the old donkey, beckoned everyone to the road, passed through the diffuse wind and sand, and passed along the next city marked on the sheepskin map.

On the way to the north, I would occasionally take out the golden hairs in my sleeves and try to silently recite the name of Sun Wukong, but unfortunately it was too far away to be missed.

It's not impossible to rely on the old donkey to run all the way, but there are four scholars behind him, and they can't ride, and with the other party's physique, it is estimated that if they run a few miles down, people can't do it.

'It seems that we can only rely on spells to get away, and it would be nice to walk back. ’

Thinking like this, Lu Liangsheng rode on the back of a donkey, looked up at the skylight, the golden morning sun crossed the clouds, the extended east sea, between the undulating waves, a fishtail splashed, and a swimming figure rushed out of the sea, jumped to a nearby reef, and looked around in the sun.

If Lu Liangsheng was here, he would definitely recognize that this was the mermaid he threw into the sea.

"Huh?"

On the reef, the merman looked at the shore gradually revealing the familiar white sails, his face suddenly showed joy, a light fast boat came along the shallow water, the merman sitting on the reef raised his arm and waved it vigorously twice, however, the sailor on the fast boat rowed two rows of paddle, no one noticed the waving figure on the reef in the distance, hoisting the sound of the trumpet, and flew over.

The mermaid on the reef was a little puzzled why the people here ignored her.

The departing clipper carried the latest piece of information about Calabsa, which was to be passed to Constantine, and along the way it would also send a warning message to the nearby cities: a group of people from the East, who had killed the governor of Calabsa, was heading for Cairo and was likely to cross the Mediterranean to reach Constantine.

The sentry posts along the coast, receiving the news of the ashore, hurried to the nearby towns as fast as they could, and for a time the streets were full of horses' hoofs, horses were coming and going in the city, and the army was moving when they received the warrants from the governor, and according to the description of the message, they searched everywhere for travelers of the same appearance and attire, and the inns and taverns were all in chaos.

Boom Boom –

In the wilderness outside the city, thousands of cavalry galloped along the boundaries of their respective towns to track down passing traders, and some even took the opportunity to extort money.

"Drive!"

"Go this way, look over the hill in front of you. ”

A group of cavalry rushed across the road, a few low palm branches swayed, and suddenly several figures appeared, four scholar-like people put down palm leaves, and a donkey chewed hay and poked its head out to look at the cavalry in the distance, and was pressed back by the hand stretched out next to him.

"Gone. ”

Lu Liangsheng removed the obstacle and beckoned the four people behind him to leave, this way to the north, naturally he also noticed the changes, in this era, no matter where it is, roads, rivers, and the sea are all important channels for transmitting information, and if something is wrong, you can clearly smell the clues.

On the subsequent road, Lu Liangsheng cast a spell to change his appearance along with the four scholars, and he didn't seem to have changed, but for outsiders, it was just no different from the ordinary people here.

"Let's go over there and rest. ”

After walking all morning with a spell, Lu Liangsheng didn't feel anything, and the four scholars behind him were not lightly tired, and when they heard the words of the national teacher, they hurried to a straw shed built of palm branches and straw on the side of the road.

The hot wind is gentle, the population is dry and dry with the sand blowing, and there are many business travelers on this road who lead the camel caravan past, and occasionally people will come in to rest for a while, drink saliva and eat some dry food, sit together and distance themselves from others, and whisper what they have seen and heard.

"The gods are above, I heard that the governor of Karabusa was killed, and the governor here is particularly sensitive, and sent people everywhere to search for the murderer, and now I don't know if he has been caught. ”

"It's hard to catch the murderer, I heard that it was a person from the East, in the story handed down by the ancestors, the East is full of devils, they once picked up a butcher's knife, almost slaughtered the creatures in this land, demagogic people let everyone follow them everywhere to kill people, set fires, plunder everything. ”

"It's just five people, and a donkey, and it won't be as scary as you say. ”

"Only the gods know everything. ”

The overwhelming search unfolded, and the governor of a city was killed in his bed, which was a great shame, and the first news came out of the official residence, the first guard who rushed into the governor's bedroom, saw a man exactly like Tibes, holding the dagger of His Excellency the Governor's favorite, inlaid with red gems, assassinated him, and then turned into a wisp of green smoke and dispersed, at first did not believe much, but the chief of the guard of the governor's residence, who was ordered to hunt down, came back from the outside with a wound, he broke one of his arms, and one of his eyes was blind, and he was covered in blood, and vowed to testify frankly that the painter from the East was the murderer, and would summon the devil from the painting。

As soon as the news came out, it had caused a sensation from Calabsa to Cairo, Egypt, and no one in the city, from the nobles to the commoners, wanted to encounter such a devil, and they spontaneously assisted the guards to pay attention to the faces of the East.

The heat continued, Lu Liangsheng, who had been resting on the side of the road for a while, signaled with his eyes that the four scholars were almost time to leave, took the old donkey tied outside, and returned to the road.

"Liangsheng, don't worry, the old man was hunted down like this back then, and it wasn't good, but when he came here, he didn't even mention the old man. ”

"Hehe, Master, this is not a good thing, besides, haven't you been staying in the bookshelf?"

Lu Liangsheng turned his head and said with a smile, took a sip of cold water, and hurriedly left this place, but unfortunately he couldn't enjoy touring here and seeing other cities.

As for the army that was tracked, the scholar was not worried about really blocking him, and he didn't want to kill these soldiers too much, although he was a foreigner, he was just acting on orders, unlike before, he gave Daer and others a chance to stop, and the other party still killed with a knife.

The sky was tilting, and after avoiding the crowded road, he walked through the great river called the Nile, and looked at the buildings with obelisks standing in the desert from afar.

After looking at this view, the city of Cairo has been left behind at this time, and according to the route on the parchment, the sea in the land of the north is just north, and on the opposite side of the sea is Constantine Dante, and to the east is the nearest road to the east.

But that's another country—Sassanid Persia.

Sunset.

Standing on a hillside between the two countries, Lu Liangsheng looked at the vast and endless land in front of him, grasslands, forests, and undulating mountains, and couldn't help but sigh for the first time.

"The land is so big, I've never felt it like this before. ”