You don't know, my lungs were going to explode at that time, and in other places in normal times, maybe I would have stabbed him at that time. But in this desert, he is the guide.

Without the guide, we probably wouldn't have been able to get out, so I couldn't bear to do anything to him.

That's how we missed the day's trip. The problem is that we didn't encounter any Loulan's army, but we encountered another country's army. ”

"Whose army did you encounter again?"

Shen Feiyang asked.

"Let's get back on the right track. More than 300 kilometers have been walked forward, and it should be less than 400 kilometers. In the evening, we came to a tall sand dune, and seeing that it was getting late, we were going to rest on the back of the dunes for the night before setting off again the next day.

Just when Shui Zhongyue and I were hiding under the sand dunes and resting, the ancient guide walked to the sand dunes alone to look at the terrain, find the best place to rest, and also look in a general direction by the way to determine whether the direction was wrong.

I just took out a bottle of water and just took a sip. Shui Zhongyue moved slowly, just took out a bottle of water, and just opened the cap of the bottle, when he heard the ancient guide scream and ran down from the top of the sand dune.

Mizuki and I also stood up nervously, not knowing what he had seen or encountered. Supposedly, there are generally no animals or anything like that on the dunes, so it is not expected that animals will chase them.

Then he screamed again, which made us sound even more frightened.

And he had crawled down from the top of the dune.

The moon and I asked at the same time:

"What's wrong? What makes you so nervous?"

"Oh no! A large army is coming. They'll kill anyone they see, run!"

The old guide did not run to the position of the two of us, but to the place where we were tied to the horse. The place where the horses were tied was more than 300 meters from where we were.

The moon and I were thinking about what to do. Whether to wait in place and see how the situation develops, or to run away on horseback like the ancient guide.

Before we could make up our minds, we saw that a large number of people had rushed to the sand dunes that the ancient guide had just run, bringing up yellow sand and dyeing the sky above the dunes gray and yellow.

And the yellow sand in the sky continues to roll over us. Shui Zhongyue and I were completely stupid at that time, so many people and horses, let alone fighting us, even if they all rushed over, they would trample us into pulp if they didn't do anything.

These people rushed to the sand dunes, and actually stopped on them, but did not rush down.

It may be that there are only two of us under the sand dunes, and we don't need their large teams to rush down, and we can't run away.

At this time, a small officer spotted the figure of the ancient guide. He pointed to the ancient guide and said to a tall and mighty officer-looking person beside him:

"Look, General Lian, there's a guy there who wants to escape. It seems to be the clothes of the locals. It's a local. ”

The officer-like man pointed at me and the moon in the water, and asked in a loud voice:

"Who are you who are running away, and why is he running away?"

I looked back at the moon in the water, and I don't know when she put her hat on her head. When we set off, thinking of the heavy sand and dust on this road, Shui Zhongyue deliberately wore a gray dress with a hat on it.

She pressed her hand to the hilt of her sword and did not answer, as if she wanted to fight the enemy to the end.

I said to the officer-like man:

"He was our guide. We don't know why he ran away. ”

Actually, I'm telling the truth, and I still don't know why the ancient guide ran away. If he hadn't run away, he might not have died.

The little soldier next to the officer said to the officer:

"Last time, a guide brought someone over and snatched the princess away. This is again a guide, and a guide is not a good thing. I don't think this guide is the one who led someone to rob the princess last time. ”

Our horse was tethered to the left, where a few red willow trees grew. Originally, the position of the tethered horse was about the same as the altitude of the sand dune, only two or three meters shorter. If the ancient guide hadn't run towards our position first and had run straight over, he would have stepped on horseback by this time.

But he ran towards us for a while, and then turned back halfway back to the place where the horse was tethered, which was equivalent to a small half circle.

The route he took to escape became a slope.

Walking on the desert, the flat road and downhill are a little better, but if you go uphill, the yellow sand is soft, and sometimes it is difficult to go up a step, and then you can slide down half a step when you lift your foot.

Although the ancient guide had been running hard, he was now nearly a hundred meters away from the place where the horse was tethered.

At this time, we only heard the officer looking at the figure of the ancient guide, "hehe" sneered, and spread his palm to a cavalryman next to him, we didn't think he wanted anything.

The soldier understood his wishes and handed a bow and a feathered arrow to the officer.

We were stunned for a moment, only to hear a "whoosh" bowstring sound, and the eagle feather arrow was like a lightning bolt, which had hit the ancient guide's vest.

We watched the ancient guide's body shake twice, and the man fell backwards, only then did we realize that the arrow had pierced the ancient guide's back to his chest.

The officer laughed maniacally.

At this moment, the soldiers around the officer shouted in unison:

"The general is good at archery, the general is good at archery, yo! yo!"

Shui Zhongyue and I looked at each other, and we couldn't decide for a moment whether to escape together or fight to the death with the enemy. Judging from the scene, escaping and fighting to the death are tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.

But you can't just get caught. At this time, the officer spoke, and he asked us:

"What are you two doing? Hurry up, or you'll be the second guide. ”

Shui Zhongyue lowered her head and did not speak. I guess she might have been afraid to reveal that she was a girl, and once these hungry soldiers knew she was a woman, the consequences could be imagined.

I don't know what to answer, our accents are different from the locals, and when we open our mouths, the other party will definitely know that we are outsiders, and we will not be able to admit our true purpose.

Just as I hesitated, the little soldier next to the officer said:

"They didn't say it, but just now this guide ran away again, and I think it must be a spy of the enemy. We catch them. Brought back to the barracks for interrogation. ”

The soldier next to the officer, who had just handed the bow and arrow, also said:

"I don't think they're good people, you see, they're not locals, maybe they're helpers from the enemy. General, didn't the enemy invite many masters to deal with us in the Central Plains some time ago, I think, let's catch them first. ”

The little man added another fire to the side:

"They didn't dare to answer, I think they must be spies. What about the general?"

The general exclaimed majestically:

"Okay, take it for me!"

Six soldiers rushed down from the dunes, and they saw that we had two of us, and that we had weapons in our hands, and they suspected that we were the masters of their enemies, and they were ready to come three against one, and take us down.

We know it's useless to say anything now, let's fight first.

The moon and I both drew our swords and pulled out our respective positions.

The six men rushed down, and sure enough, in groups of three, outflanked us.

Separated me from the moon in the water, three against one, launched an attack on us.

At first, I thought that these three people were all mediocre hands, as long as we could capture one person alive and then force them to let us leave, but I didn't expect that the six people who rushed down to us were not mediocre hands, all of them were good hands.

Maybe it's also because they think that we are masters invited by others, and we can't deal with ordinary soldiers. Only three soldiers came down with some martial arts skills.

These soldiers also have a natural advantage, they have fought in the steppes and deserts for a long time, they have rich combat experience, and their physical strength is good, although we will not be defeated for a while, but it will not be easy to win against them.

I saw that these soldiers also knew some strategies and tactics, knew some basic positions, and no matter how hard we tried, the three of them always trapped me and Shui Zhongyue in the middle, and it was very difficult to escape.

At this point, it occurred to me that while the two of us still had the stamina, if we could catch any of the six, we would have a chance to bargain with them.

I shouted to the moon in the water:

"You rushed over and approached me. ”

Mizuki understood what I meant, struck hard, tore a gap, and rushed towards me, and I also consciously took the three people who besieged me out of the other's control.

I think in the chaos, there may be a chance to carry out my intentions. But in the chaos, I was injured in my hands and shoulders, but fortunately the injuries were not serious.

Before I knew it, I was five or six feet away from the fight. The moon in the water also leaned towards me.

I whispered to her:

"We rushed out together, and I had a chance to catch one. ”

I and she exerted force at the same time, and there were many enemies here, but they didn't have the rules just now, and their formation was a little chaotic.

I had the upper hand with the moon and broke through a gap. I saw that the moon in the water was right in the gap, and this was the best time to escape, and I shouted to the moon in the water:

"You go quickly, I'll break off. ”

At this moment, in front of me to the right, one of the soldiers closest to the moon in the water, with a spear, stabbed at the vest of the moon in the water, and I squinted and saw that the officer was bending his bow and arrows to aim at us.

I shouted:

"Arrow proof!"

At the same time as I shouted, I heard the sound of a bowstring, and a sharp arrow flew over like a meteor catching the moon.

Eagle Feather Arrow flew over, not at me, but towards the moon in the water.

It may have been because I was close to those soldiers, and the officer was afraid of injuring his men, so he shot his sword at the moon in the water.

Shui Zhongyue heard the sound of the bowstring, and while he lowered his head sharply and raised his sword to protect his chest, he flicked it upward. But the arrow came so fast and so fast that she couldn't dodge it, and she heard a "snort" sound, and she was hit by an arrow in the head.

I was shocked when I saw the arrow hit her in the head.

Fortunately, in her panic, she flicked the arrow a little crooked with her sword, and the sharp arrow shot at her head, but it did not hit her head and face, only the hat on her head was shot off.

The moon in the water scattered green hair, covering half of her face.

At this moment, among the soldiers who were close to the moon in the water, one of them suddenly exclaimed in surprise and excitement:

"Princess?!"

After a pause of two seconds, the soldier who had just called the princess shouted even more excitedly:

"General, general, found it! This is the princess, come on, this is the same princess!"

At this time, several soldiers, including those who were fighting me, also stopped. I was also given a little respite.

But I know I can't run now, I can't run away.

The soldiers ignored me, and all ran to Shui Zhongyue's side and surrounded her.

I know that it was the soldiers who mistook Shui Yue and recognized her as a princess.

I looked over to the officer and saw that he had taken a portrait from one of the soldiers next to him. He glanced twice, and then led his men to stride down.