Chapter 32: Mountaineering (27)
When an oasis is polluted, it is declared that the oasis has lost its meaning of existence, and the ashes, blood and corpses that are burned will soon rot and pollute the water, and the mosquitoes and flies will further increase the toxicity of the lake, and the clean water will become a pool of sewage.
Nearby animals may be able to barely drink this water, but humans are absolutely unable to drink the sewage here, and even if it is boiled, the probability of suffering from diarrhea and high fever is still very high, and in the desert where there is no medical treatment, these diseases are basically declared dead.
If someone can clean up these corpses in time and work hard to restore the ecological environment of the oasis, maybe this oasis will not die, but all the people here have been killed by the soldiers of the Lido Kingdom, they have no intention of occupying this place, and it will take hundreds of years to restore the original appearance of the oasis through the self-cleaning function of the environment.
Every oasis in this desert is important, and the loss of any one would mean that a merchant traveler would have to travel hundreds of miles to reach the next safe oasis, and an extra ten miles in a desert with an unpredictable climate would be a disaster.
Tianhuo is not a compassionate saint, he has traveled through the great rivers and mountains of the Song Kingdom, and has also seen the deceitful affairs of the Song Kingdom court and the cultivation realm, has seen the suffering of mortals, and knows that cultivation is sinister.
His "Knowing Words" has been fully cultivated, and his knowledge of the world is far superior to that of other monks, but his high level of knowledge means that Tianhuo already knows how to protect this world.
Tianhuo's "Keeping Words" is still in the exploration stage, he has not yet found the "Keeping Words" that points directly to his heart, and he doesn't know what method to use to protect this world, whether to silently support and guide, or actively participate in control, his "Dao" is not clear.
Before thinking about this, Tianhuo was not prepared to do something that would change the world on a large scale with his own hands, so as not to be contaminated with too much cause and effect, and the same was true for this oasis.
Tianhuo can feel sorry for this oasis, but it will not interfere in cleaning it up, in addition to the consideration of time, there is also the fact that it does not want to affect the normal historical process of Hengduan Desert.
At this moment, Tianhuo had determined that he was not in the illusion, he had been sent here by mysterious means, and he could not be sure if the time and space were the same as the time and space he was in.
As an interloper, he resisted this play from the bottom of his heart, and the matter here deviated from the Taoist idea of "nature", and Tianhuo preferred to be a bystander.
Skyfire prepares to search the oasis and leave once he makes sure there are no survivors, whether it's a test or an accident, he needs to find a place to understand the situation and survive.
Most of the buildings in the oasis had burned down, and only a few low houses remained, and the skyfire roamed quickly across the oasis, and he carefully searched every uncollapsed house in the hope of finding a survivor.
Soon Tianhuo was pleasantly surprised to discover that there were three other survivors on the oasis, who had escaped the slaughter by hiding in two different dens in two separate groups.
One of them was a group of two, one of them was a short and fat old man in his fifties, with an exaggerated beard of the desert people on his upper lip, although he was unkempt and wearing a shabby ordinary clothes, but he was born with the temperament of a superior person, and the other was also about fifty, but he was white-faced and beardless, and liked to bow his head and bend over.
The other survivor was a woman in her mid-forties, with a wrinkled face, tawny eyes, rough, chapped skin that looked like a long-time desert dweller, with hollow eyes and dry tear stains in the corners of her eyes, apparently having lost many of her relatives today.
The three of them were carried by the neck by the fire to an intact house.
The white-faced and bearded old man was obviously subdued by the strong combat power of Tianhuo, and he lay on the ground and did not dare to raise his head, while the old man with a good temperament stood proudly, as if he was the one in control of the field.
The white-faced old man didn't need to reach out to pull the temperament old man's robe several times, meaning that he also knelt down to show his obedience and save his life, but the temperament old man not only didn't appreciate it, but kicked the white-faced bearded old man hard, cursing in a very fast desert language while beating.
The middle-aged woman sat on her knees, her eyes full of despair, neither begging nor crying, she closed herself completely, as if she were only kneeling on the ground with a shell.
Tianhuo frowned, these three people are in very poor condition, and they don't know how to communicate with them because of the language barrier?
Tianhuo coughed and tried to ask, "Which of you can understand Huaxia?"
When the three of them heard Tianhuo speak, they all paused for a moment, and then the old man with a temperament roared at Tianhuo, and the middle-aged woman's eyes rolled blankly, and she continued to return to her shell.
Only the white-faced old man on the ground raised a hand in fear, and stumbled: "Hero, I can speak a little Chinese, you can ask me anything." ”
Tianhuo was overjoyed, because Sira could speak Huaxia before, and he thought that Sira should be the only one in the Lido Kingdom who could speak Huaxia, and this white-faced and beardless old man should be the eunuch of the royal family of the Lido Kingdom, so Tianhuo tried it.
Now that we can communicate, the next thing is much easier.
The eunuch confessed that he was a eunuch in the court of the Lido kingdom, and that he accompanied His Royal Highness on his expedition to this oasis, but the cavalry of the army coveted the treasures they carried, ransacked their chariots, killed all their cavalry and servants, and survived by hiding after being informed in advance.
The old eunuch began to speak stumbling in Huaxia, and the more he spoke, the more skilled he became, and when he talked about the sad place, he burst into tears, with an extremely sad and indignant expression.
Tianhuo did not interrupt the old eunuch's narration, and did not even stop him from speaking a few desert words from time to time to appease His Royal Highness the irritable prince on the side.
The old eunuch spoke for a while before explaining the identities, origins, and experiences of the two, and then looked at Tianhuo pitifully, begging the kind Tianhuo to take them out of this oasis.
Tianhuo casually asked, "Princess Cyala of your kingdom is also here, why don't you stop the cavalry from mutiny?" I know that she has a high prestige in the army. ”
The old eunuch's pupils shrank suddenly, he just confirmed that the young man in front of him was a Chinese, he dared to make up a lie, he had served the royal family for so many years, and he knew that when lying, he had to be nine points true and one point false so as not to be seen by others, and he thought that the lie just now was perfect.
But he didn't expect that the other party actually knew Princess Sila, and his specious lie just now was likely to be exposed, and the old eunuch immediately sweated like a spring when he thought of this.
Tianhuo didn't expect the old eunuch to tell the truth, he listened to it, and then slowly interrogated the truth.
He was more interested in the temperamental old man at the moment, he had disguised himself very well before, but when he heard the words Princess Sira, he accidentally showed a complicated expression, although it was fleeting, but it was enough for Tianhuo to conclude that he could understand Huaxia.
Tianhuo put away a gentle smile and said, "Your Majesty, you don't have to pretend, I'm not Sila's subordinate, I'm not her enemy, I'm not interested in your life or your wealth, I just want to know what's going on." ”
The temperamental old man and the white-faced old man shook their bodies together, and looked at Tianhuo incredulously, it seemed that Tianhuo really said their identity.
The temperamental old man pondered for a moment and said in Huaxia: "I am the king of the Lido Kingdom, how did you guess my identity?"
Tianhuo shrugged and said: "It doesn't matter to me who you are at all, I don't want to waste too much time here, it was you who were too cautious to lie to me first, I can only expose you."
I didn't know who you were at first, but I saw that this gentleman was a lieutenant, but I didn't expect him to speak Huaxia, and it just so happened that I knew that Princess Siara could also speak Huaxia.
I don't think that a small Lido royal family will have a lot of people who can speak Huaxia, so this lieutenant must be a close minister of the royal family, and if you are a prince, you should not be so rude to a close minister of the royal family.
Of course, let me be sure that you are the king, or because although you pretend that you don't understand Huaxia, you listen all the time, and your ear muscles don't deceive, and when you hear Sira, you show flaws because of excitement, so I guess you are the king, and you admit it. ”
King Lido sighed: "The Huaxia clan is worthy of being the largest race in Dongshengzhou, there are many talents, and any one person can crush us and other desert tribes, but it is ridiculous that I once had the idea of competing with the Huaxia clan." ”
Tianhuo shook his head and said: "As a king, there is nothing wrong with your determination to forge ahead and work hard, but it is your mistake to arbitrarily slaughter innocent people of other countries or nationalities, don't you want to say anything about the tragedy in front of you?"
The Lido King smiled and said, "Young man, you have a point, I have already suffered retribution for my indiscriminate killings. ”
"Abandoned by the army, and abandoned by your daughter, what did you do that angered you?"
"Actually, I was abandoned by my daughter, but the army now listens to Silla, so it is logical that they abandoned me. Whoever is a king to them is the same, as long as they can give them enough wealth and women, and it is clear that Sila is better at governing the country than I am. ”
The old eunuch said: "Your Majesty, you don't have to give up on yourself like this, you have managed the Lido Kingdom for nearly thirty years, and you have transformed the Lido Kingdom from a small country with a land boundary of three hundred miles into a medium-sized country that controls thousands of miles of land, and the people will remember your merits and kindness.
As long as we make it back to the kingdom of Lido alive, the nobles who supported you will immediately unite to overthrow Princess Syra and reclaim your throne. ”
The king of Lido said, "You don't know those nobles, who love the new and hate the old, and who are more ambitious than I am, and who would rather support a beautiful queen than a rotten old man."
In their opinion, a queen who lacks roots is more likely to be controlled by them left and right.
But they were wrong, Sira's methods were far more clever and cruel than mine, and once she gained power, she would be the first to eradicate those aristocratic families, and they would definitely end worse than me. ”
PNG said gloomily: "But Sira is not really of royal blood, and those nobles will support her as queen?"
"I regret that in order to please her mother, she decreed that Sila was my own daughter, and now those identification documents are still in the palace, and no one will question Silla's ancestry, even if the nobles suspect that as long as those documents are there, no one can prevent her from ascending the throne for this reason. ”
Tianhuo finally figured out the grievances between King Lido and Princess Siara, and persuaded: "You should be glad that you did that back then, so Sira spared your life today, otherwise do you think you two can escape from the hunt of those cavalry?"
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