Volume 1: The Seven Stars of the Twilight of the World Chapter 26 The Lonely Smoke of the Desert (Part II)
The slay outside the night style of the city of Shure, when passing through the only street in the city, can even make a ghostly whistle.
However, the boudoir of the innkeeper Zhao Meier was still warm as spring, and the captain of Tangshan was only wearing a close-fitting cloth coat, and he hugged Zhao Meier's plump and smooth body.
Zhao Mei'er snorted, fell on Captain Tang's thin chest, and sat on his crossed Erlang's legs, and Captain Tang's two thin claws skillfully drilled into the hem of Zhao Meier's clothes, causing the proprietress to be angry again.
"The surname is Tang, don't you have any news about my brother?"
"Well, the brothers have been helping to inquire, don't worry, as long as he is still in the northern Xinjiang, he can help you find him sooner or later. ”
"Then I'll thank you in advance. But you're tired of me every day, and you're not afraid of gossip from people below?"
"These are my brothers who have died, what gossip will they say?"
"Brother died, what about me?" Zhao Meier pretended to be angry, twisted her body, and left only Captain Tang with a charming back.
"You, you are my old Tang's life...... Ha ha. "The candles in the house flickered, and suddenly the spring was boundless.
At this moment, an eager knock on the door sounded, "Lord Tang, Lord Tang, someone outside the city wants to break into our night gate." ”
"Bastard!" Captain Tang, who was disturbed by the good things, suddenly scolded, "Who is so short-sighted, our Shule is the gateway to the empire, how can we let people into the city at night, ignore them." If they break in, let them taste our thunderbolt. ”
"My lord, it looks like Jebetso's caravan outside the city......"
"What?" Captain Tangshan, who had already rolled into bed, heard the name of Jebecuo's camel team, and immediately turned over and jumped up from Gentle Township, and put on the clothes at the head of the bed. As soon as the door opened, Lord Tangshan, the supreme governor of Daxia Shule City, who was already neatly dressed, held a long sword in his hand, and pulled up the collar of the messenger outside the door, "Let's go, take a look." ”
Outside the city gate, the lanterns swaying in the cold wind emitted a faint blue light, Captain Tang closed his eyes, and saw that the person who came was indeed the camel team of Jebelcuo who had passed through the customs before.
"Geng Zhong, Wang Gang, Xiao Si is on guard, the city gate is only three feet open, let them come in one by one. ”
According to Lord Tang's instructions, the subordinates let the camel team in one by one, and finally followed up with Su Su, Xiang Bei and Tianmo.
"Thank you, thank you. The blood on Jebetso's face had not yet been wiped away, and his blood-soaked arms were tightly bound with strips of cloth, and when he entered the city gate, he secretly rejoiced as if he had been reborn.
Captain Tangshan felt that he could no longer pretend to turn a blind eye, so he called Jebecuo to the captain's camp for questioning. Only Xiang Bei noticed that Lord Tangshan's eyes specially turned back and forth on the two camels that Xiangmazi was about to rob.
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In the depths of the desert, the bandit Shali flew back to his entrenched lair and ripped off the yellow coat on his body. The bronze mirror on his chest had been knocked out of a deep pit by Su Su's arrows, and his subordinates hurriedly found some bone-setting wine to spray the bruises on Sha Lifei's chest to relieve the pain.
Sha Lifei bared his teeth and beckoned his subordinates, "Is the dumb man back?"
After a while, a big bandit with a black cloth hood broke in outside the door, and it was the one who deliberately provoked Jebelso and commanded the horse robbery.
"Boss, the dumb man is half back. ”
"Special mother, why are you called back half of it?"
"The two dark stakes we put today are the dumb man and the deaf man, and the deaf man pulled back the dumb man's body with a horse just now, and only the upper body remained. The deaf man said that he saw the sandworm eat the lower half of the mute. ”
"Nonsense, we've lived here for so many years, how can there be any legendary sandworms, you let the deaf in. ”
The deaf are not deaf, just as the dumb are not speechless, for neither of these fellows is very fond of dealing with people, so they are given these two nicknames when they call each other.
The mute had sharp eyes and could see the situation from a distance of several miles, so he was often in charge of the reconnaissance of this team of ringing horses, and during the day, when Sha Lifei saw that the situation was not right, and retreated with a large group of men and horses, the mute and deaf were left to continue to monitor Jebecuo's camel caravan from a distance. Only the last one to come back, but it was the deaf man who brought back the upper part of the mute body.
The deaf man looked no more than twenty years old, and was called to his side by Sha Lifei, confronted him repeatedly, and did not ask anything wrong. The cunning Sha Lifei couldn't help but wonder what was wrong? The mysterious archer hidden in the camel caravan, the Tangshan captain with a bad stomach, and this inexplicable sand worm.
The sandworm has always been just a legend handed down in the desert for some time, and no one has ever seen it with their own eyes, but the half of the body left by the mute man is indeed cut by several layers of tooth-like sharp objects.
The bandit with the black turban wrapped in his face was Sha Lifei's cronies, nicknamed Black Bear, and looked at Sha Lifei who had been silent, waiting a little impatiently to ask, "What should we do next?"
Sha Lifei thought for a long time, "We are only deaf and have no bottom line, and the government should not suspect him, so let him go to Shule to find out the rumors first." ”
The black bear nodded yes, and for a well-known bandit like them, entering Shuree City would be tantamount to throwing himself into the net.
The deaf man didn't talk nonsense, and when he heard Sha Lifei's arrangement, he was about to leave, and Sha Lifei patted the deaf man on the shoulder, "Child, the person I am most optimistic about now is you." Take a trip to Shure and ask what the situation is. ”
Looking at the deaf man's back as he disappeared into the night, the black bear secretly asked Sha Lifei, "Boss, didn't you say that this kid is from an unknown origin, and we should be on guard?"
"Why don't you go?" Sha Lifei choked the black bear angrily, and the black bear was suddenly speechless.
Now Mo said that he was going to Shule in Tangshan to collect information, and the monster sandworms they said were hiding under the sand and gravel alone were enough for a black bear to drink.
Just as the bandits speculated, the atmosphere in Shule City also suddenly became tense, and after listening to Jebecuo's description, the Tangshan Lieutenant verbally comforted him, saying that at least Shule was safe. But when he sent Jebecuo away, Lord Tangshan immediately recruited his confidant Geng Zhong, "Geng Zhong, immediately enter the alert." Tell the brothers that in this extraordinary period, all the rotations will be canceled immediately, and everyone will be on double duty. If there is any abnormality, report it to me immediately. ”
"Yes!" Geng Zhong had been following Tangshan for many years, and from his expression, he could tell when he could joke and when he had to go all out in a serious manner.
It's just that Geng Zhong can't figure out one thing, can stepping up patrols stop those terrible sandworms?
Lord Tangshan patiently explained that if the sandworm is really as people describe, then if it attacks Shule, it will kill Shule, and there is no need to fight against Heaven's will. Now the main task is to ensure the safety of the city in the first place. With what he knew about Sharifei, the reckless man was afraid that he would soon have to make a move on the city of Shure.
Everything was arranged, Lord Tang stood up and stretched his waist, beat his sore waist, and thought that he could continue the front line with the proprietress Zhao Meier, but a guy from the inn had already run to the captain's camp,
"Lord Tang, my master asked me to bring you a message, saying that there are too many guests in the inn tonight, so please ask Lord Tang to stay in the school lieutenant camp. ”
"This stinky woman...... Although Lord Tangshan had resentment in his heart and scolded on his lips, he seemed to be a little jealous of Zhao Meier, and he obediently stayed in the lieutenant camp.
Zhao Meier's inn was also really lively, and a few guys were busy arranging for the dusty camel team to stay. The dart masters were killed, wounded, and frightened, and the slightest slowness on the part of the men would incur their displeasure. Only Xiang Bei and the three of them were a little calm, Tianmo honestly went back to his firewood room, Xiang Bei was forced to wake himself up all the way, and now he lay down, and immediately fell asleep again, Su Su ignored the warm invitation of the proprietress, insisted on staying in Xiang Bei's room, and her many years of killer career made her a habit, as long as the enemy is still nearby, then she must always be on guard against their counterattack, even in Shule City, she still can't let Xiang Bei, who has no defense, face the threat of Xiangmazi alone.
"Okay" Zhao Meier couldn't screw Su Su, so she had to ask her subordinates to temporarily set up a small bed in Xiang Bei's room, and added a few more bedding, which naturally made Su Su grateful for a while.
The commotion continued until the second half of the night, when the whole city of Shule was completely quiet again, and perhaps this popular small border town had experienced unprecedented fatigue and wanted to take advantage of the darkness of the night to fall asleep.
In a hidden corner of the city wall, a black shadow climbed from outside the city to the city wall with the help of flying claws, and then took advantage of the gap between the patrol teams that passed from time to time to turn over and enter the city.
The black shadow touched Tibet, and in a few dodges, he successfully touched the captain's camp near the city wall. When the black shadow gently pushed the door of Tangshan's room, Tangshan was already alert, and when the black shadow just poked into half of his body, Tangshan's long sword had already been put on the black shadow's neck from behind the door.
The black shadow took off the mask on his face, and the candlelight flickered, and it turned out to be a deaf man sent by Sha Lifei.
Tang San looked behind the deaf man, "Why are you here, not afraid of being discovered?"
"Lord Tang, I was sent by Sha Lifei, and he wanted me to find out what the situation of the camel caravan was and who that mysterious archer was. More importantly," the deaf man paused, "he wanted me to see if this was a trap you had set. ”
"Shalifei isn't a good thing, but I'm not stupid enough to break with him openly. I didn't expect an archery girl to get into the caravan. Besides, Sha Lifei is too cowardly, just an arrow, and it didn't hurt him, how can I be cowardly and suspect me?"
"Xiaolong, remember what I told you, everything is about safety, don't arouse Sha Lifei's suspicion. ”
"Well, thank you Lord Tang for your concern. ”
Tang Shan felt that it was not intimate enough, so he picked up the wine cup on the table and filled it with a bowl of spirits, "Xiaolong, this desert night is bitterly cold, you quickly drink two sips to warm up your body and drive away the cold." ”
Xiaolong was not polite, and drank it all over the wine cup.
When the morning sun woke up to the city again, everything seemed to be the same as before, the wind had gone away, some families had already started to make fires to cook, and a few wisps of cooking smoke from the town were rising and soon twisting into a straight column of smoke in mid-air.
From a distance, the yellow sand, the lonely city, and a wisp of green smoke soared upward. Who would have thought that this quiet city of Shule, which is like an ink painting, would soon be swept up in the disaster of blood and light.