Chapter 163: Birth and Death "Paul, have you ever seen such a stupid man" Captain Peter of the Tagore Imperial Border Guards, standing on a high arrow tower, looked into the distance with his hands on a canopy.
The desert is smoking, the sunset is like blood, and at the end of the yellow grassland, three healthy horses are about to disappear on the horizon.
Guard Paul replied earnestly, "My lord, not before today." ” After thinking about it, he added: "It's the first time I've seen such a stupid woman, my lord."
Squadron Leader Peter shrugged his shoulders and said, "This is still a troublesome matter, I have never written directly to the military department, oh no, it should be directly addressed to the Grand Duke of Oberstein, directly to Her Majesty the Empress" Speaking of this, he couldn't help but get excited: "Think about it, Her Majesty unfolds my letters, I write them with my own hands, and the Empress's fingers will touch my writing, oh I really want to kneel at the Empress's feet and kiss her feet."
"I'm afraid there is no chance, my lord, you let go of a marquis and an earl who have just been rewarded by the Empire, and the Empress may send you to the gallows.
The new Marquis was Her Majesty's most infatuated lover, and everyone knew about the 600,000 border soldiers," replied the guard Paul very honestly.
Squadron Leader Peter glared at him fiercely: "You stupid donkey, you deserve to be a guard for the rest of your life."
The two of us ran out of a village to serve as soldiers, why did I become a squadron leader while you are still a soldier, you should think carefully about the gap between us. ” Guard Paul touched his helmet, speaking of the gap, he and the squadron leader are a full head apart, they are both thirty-two this year, it is estimated that they will not be able to catch up with the jump, he shook his head regretfully.
Squadron Leader Peter returned to his office and respectfully wrote a letter addressed to the Grand Duke of Oberstein, though he knew that the Empress would fall into the hands of the Empress due to her relationship with the Marquis of Jedi.
"I tried hard to persuade them, but Lord Jedi and his two companions were determined to go out and rescue their companions.
As a junior officer, there is no reason to refuse the orders of a marquis, an adjutant general of the Imperial City Guard, and at the same time I am moved by their noble knightly demeanor, and if it were not my duty, I would go out with them as their retinue, without hesitation.
But in desperation, the lowly can only switch and release.
The three of them seemed to have no experience marching in the desert, so I prepared as much water and jerky as I could for them, and provided them with a map.
I beg your pardon for my audacity, my pretensions, my deception towards my superiors, for which I am willing to be court-martialed But I have no regrets, because I can't sit back and watch the two young and promising generals of the empire go on an adventure in the steppe kingdom, and I can't sit back and watch the empire lose two outstanding talents.
The map I gave to the Marquis of Jedi was a fake They will go around the steppes in circles, and they will never go deep into the sphere of influence of the Sauron Empire, and when the Marquis completely loses his sense of direction, and when the dry food prepared for them by the lowly officials runs out, they will come back to our fortress."
On the third day of entering the grassland, they found that the area they walked was becoming more and more desolate, the grassland was gone, and a large area of the Gobi Desert began to appear Although the civilized people of the Tagore Empire often talk about the Sauron barbarians, in fact they are completely ignorant of their domestic situation.
Their herdsmen may have pastures larger than a city, and there are no other people within a radius of dozens of miles, so it is difficult to understand them and grasp their information.
Jedi and Picasso looked at the map for a long time with wide eyes before pointing to the right and saying, "It should be this way."
Sallyst's face was covered with a light veil to shield the sand and dust, and the winter of the prairie had not yet snowed, and it was all dry and yellow as far as the eye could see, and the wind and grass were simmering, and it seemed that she would never reach the end of the day.
The Prairie Kingdom was thousands of times bigger than she had imagined.
Picasso took a leather pouch from the saddle and drank his water: "Don't worry, as long as we don't go wrong, we can catch up."
It would be nice if their brigade could travel half as fast as us.
As the mouth opened and closed, crystal droplets of water splashed everywhere.
Sally snatched the leather bag and said unhappily, "Brother, don't waste water."
Look at this and we'll go into the desert.
No, I'll keep all the water from now on, and I'll give it to you, Jedi. ” Jedi silently plucked his leather pouch from his horse and handed it to Lisa, and it seemed inevitable that he would enter the desert.
There is no water source nearby, and drinking water should be controlled.
Sally tied all the leather bags with water and fastened them to her horse with leather ropes, looked up at Jedi and asked puzzledly, "Jedi, why don't we chase after it in flying boots, it's much faster." ”。
Jedi shook his head helplessly: "Our dry food and drinking water can't be put down there, and more importantly", he looked at the vast wilderness: "There are too few recognizable signs here, it is easy to get lost on land, once we fly in the air, we will completely lose our direction" The three of them rested for a moment, and Jedi suddenly smelled a hint of unease.
He squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, and a black line appeared on the edge of the endless sky, the black line seemed to be stationary, but after observing it for a long time, he would find that it was moving rapidly here, but there was nothing of the same proportion around him to refer to, so that people could not notice that the sky had become dark.
Jedi stared at it for a moment, his expression changed, his nose sniffed vigorously against the air, his face changed greatly, and he hurriedly shouted: "Quick, find a leeward place immediately, it's too late, dig a pit on the spot, dig a big pit that can hide people, hide it and cover it with a robe."
Picasso looked at the scenery with a canopy in a daze, and also learned from him to sniff the air around him, and said happily: "Nothing, you found something" Jedi pushed him and said hurriedly: "Hurry up, it's a hurricane, or a hurricane that carries a large amount of ash from the grassland wildfires When it sweeps over, the ashes can stick to people's mouths and noses, and people suffocate to death."
Sally laughed, "Don't worry, I can summon a wind hood and shield us from it, how dirty it is to hide in the grass pit" Jedi struggled to dig through the dirt as he glanced back, "Are you sure your air shield will last more than half an hour, and are you sure you can withstand the pressure of the hurricane?"
"That's right" Sally panicked, quickly took off her wand and dug it on the ground, just picked up a few weeds, she suddenly asked, "What about these horses" Jedi had already dug out a large pit large enough for one person to crouch in it, and when he heard this, he said, "I can't take care of it, just take as much water and food as I can later." ” Sally looked at the three war horses that were restlessly digging the ground in place because she sensed the change in the sky, and her eyes rolled and she suddenly thought about it.
When the hurricane came, the three people and three horses hiding in the cave couldn't see anything, but they could still feel the power of heaven and earth from the slight tremor of the ground and the deafening whistling sound.
A huge hole in the ground, hiding more than enough for three people and three horses.
As Jedi and Picasso struggled to dig into the ground, Sally summoned two earth giants and instructed them to dig holes, and soon a cavern was formed, and the two earth giants turned back into dirt to block the hole, and they waited in the cave for the wind to pass.
Sally sat on a pile of luggage, a small cloud of white light burning from her fingertips, providing a cloud of light to the dark space.
The soft white light shone on her face and body, looking like an oil painting of a goddess resting.
"They're much slower than us, they're only two days early, and at that rate, we should be able to catch up with them today or tomorrow."
Sallyster said as she played with the small ball of light produced by the "illumination technique".
Picasso listened attentively to the sound of tens of thousands of cattle trampling and rushing at the same time, and said: "There are probably less than eight hundred of them, and a third of them are orc warriors.
Jedi, we only take the Chinese army, save people first, once we save people, immediately leave with flying boots.
Although we can't do it with flying boots along the road, with the sun and the moon as an indicator, the general direction will not be wrong, as long as we return to Tagore, it will be safe. ” "Jedi, I think you should understand that our purpose is to save people, as for the seventh prince, I hope you don't act rashly at that time, if he is not near Lolita, don't go out of your way to look for him, there will be a chance to kill him later."
Picasso was afraid that Jedi would lose his mind by then, so he implicitly reminded him.
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"Yes, we can't kill everyone, the news will eventually leak out, the Sauron Empire borders Tagore and Rus, and the desert steppes in the north are their territory, and they have coveted the prosperous world in the south for a long time, and they will not let go of this opportunity."
We have a chance to deal with them."
Jedi is now only worried about the life and death of the little fox girl, and he has long regarded protecting her safety It's my own responsibility, and Lolita is also responsible for taking the Seven Princes captive this time, since I knew that the Seven Princes were taken away because of their beauty, my heart was full of self-blame.
He had already prepared himself for the worst, whether it was like that or not, he would always pity her.
Now the only thing he thought about was how to get her out of that bastard's hands.
He understood the meaning and worry of the Picasso siblings' words, and Jedi nodded and said, "Don't worry, I understand."
It's just to save people, as long as I achieve this goal, I will leave, and I will not fight to vent my anger. ” It was about half an hour before the hurricane had completely passed through the area, the rumbling of the ground was gone, the horses were no longer anxious to scratch the ground, the air in the cave was about to run out, and it seemed to be suffocated, and Jedi and Picasso quickly opened the hole and got out.
The yellow steppe of the Gobi Desert has been replaced by pitch black, and everywhere there is a cloud of black mist that rises when you step on it, and the sky is very dark and bright, but you can't see the sun, and you can imagine what it will be like when a hurricane hits.
Picasso looked around and wondered, "Where should we go?"
The land was completely obscured by a black ash, and the original topography was distorted, and the road signs that had just been identified seemed to be impossible to see.
Jedi took out the map and compared it carefully for a long time, then pointed to a dark mountain in the distance and said, "Look, where is the horn-like fork, let's go there and continue west." ” Having spotted the direction, the three of them took out their horses, packed their bags and moved on, the mountain looked very close, but it took a lot of effort to walk, and when they arrived at the horn-shaped bifurcated mountain, the sky was already clear, and the red sunset was as big as a wheel, quietly hanging in the sky.
Along the way, although the three of them covered their mouths and noses with cloth towels, their faces were still covered with black dust, especially the smell of burning in their nostrils.
Looking at the two partners without a hint of complaint, Jedi showed a warm light in his eyes peeking through the cloth towel.
The initial acquaintance between him and the Picasso siblings was completely a relationship of mutual use, but I don't know when everything they did to each other no longer took into account their own interests, but only chose to stand by his side, and they are now friends in life and death.
Picasso jumped off his horse, walked forward on the soft sand, and then sat down on a colorful stone eroded by the wind and sand, and beside a few spiky curved stone pillars, he held on to the stone pillar and said, "Jedi, the ashes here have been blown away by the wind, let's stop here for a while, clean up and eat some food, and then let's go."
Sally, give me a hydration bag. ” Sally tossed one over, and Picasso drank it before pouring it over his head and quickly washing his face and clearing his nostrils.
When I raised my eyes and saw my sister's stinky face, it was as if it had cost her millions of gold coins, I couldn't help but blush, and said, "This is not much for my nose to be blocked, you see" At this moment, he suddenly felt the ground shaking, and hurriedly grabbed the stone pillar and shouted: "Jedi, is there another hurricane and the ground is shaking?"
Sallyster's face turned pale, and she glared at him with her eyes and said, "No, it's the ground is shaking, God come down." ” "What" Picasso was puzzled, but he understood immediately, he was rising, rising, the sand beside him poured down like flowing water, a behemoth came out of the mound of sand, Picasso was sitting on top of its head, from head to toe, the monster's body was covered with bone spurs like curved stone pillars, its head was as tall as three horses, and when it let out a thunderous roar, the stony skin trembled, and Picasso on top bounced up and down for a long time.
With this roar, the calm sand and gravel ground around seemed to set off waves, and more of the same monsters burrowed out of the ground one by one, and soon, the three of Jedi were surrounded by several groups of monsters covered in bone spurs, with multiple eyes and noses like a single horn.
The three horses neighed in mourning, but they didn't even have the courage to escape, and one by one they lay limp on the ground, and Picasso cried out, "What the hell is this?"
He stood on the monster's head, drew his long sword and slashed it between its necks, and the skin as hard and tough as a stone only made a white mark, and the sparks were shallow, and the monster shook its head, and Picasso was thrown far away like a kite with a broken string.
"Don't attack them, it's a sand ridger."
Jedi shouted, "Damn that there are so many sand ridges.
Picasso, don't waste your physical strength, this waste is a natural meat shield, the defense is amazingly high, even if a god is afraid of it, it can't kill it, but this thing is very stupid, the attack speed is extremely slow, there is a single method, just avoid them. ” Picasso held a sword in one hand and a water bag in the other, jumped up and down under the attack of a huge head, dodged to the east, and cried out again and again: "Jedi, it is attacking me, I don't think it's slow."
"Water, it wants water, throw the water bag away," Salice shouted, with a flash of inspiration.
Picasso shook his hand and threw the water bag into the distance, and the strange cow covered in thorns really roared and pounced, and Picasso breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, this monster's attack power is limited, they are slow, their claws are not sharp enough, and the bone spurs can't easily hurt people unless it lies down and rolls, but its defense is too terrible, Picasso has enough fighting energy, and he can't pierce its skin, this is a completely desperate battle.
Picasso's crisis was over, but that pocket of water was too little for the group of sand ridged dragons.
Soon they turned around and gathered together on Jedey and Sallyste, who chewed his head vigorously, but Maray was there refusing to get up.
Sallyste's spells were frequent, fireballs, electric shocks, and freezing, all kinds of magic hit the Sand Ridge Dragon, like bursting into a ball of fireworks, and the Sand Ridge Dragons were not affected in the slightest, and the encirclement became smaller and smaller.
Sally summoned two Earth Elemental Giants, and they punched the Sand Ridge Ox with a punch that weighed more than a thousand pounds, and the Sand Ridge Ox just shook it, and then swept off the Earth Elemental Giant's legs with their big heads, and after it was a little shorter, the two Sand Ridge Dragons were slightly separated and reunited, and the Earth Elemental Giant was crushed into a field of sand, I am afraid that only forbidden spell magic can deal with such a strong creature.
"Give up, Sally, take a hydration bag and leave as soon as possible, although the Sand Ridge Dragon is stupid and doesn't have high attack power, it is not a vegetarian" Jedi hastily plucked food from his horse and threw it to Picasso, and hurriedly removed some from his shoulder, escaping the encirclement before the Sand Ridge finally closed the siege.
The Sand Ridgedhorns had a large head, but their brain size was obviously limited, and they were very attached to their goals, and Lisa's horse had a lot of water.
After eating Jedi and Picasso's horses, they ignored Jedi's escape, and still clinged to each other, pressing Sally mightily.
Sally panicked as she saw more and more Sand Ridge Dragons surrounding her, and when she saw Jedi escape from the encirclement, she hurriedly took off the leather bag containing water from her horse and threw it at him.
"Jedi, quick, catch.
Take the water away."
Because all the leather bags were tied together by Sally with leather ropes, it was as if she was dragging her tail when she threw it out.
Leather bags can only fly at low altitudes.
The sand ridged dragons felt the fluctuations of the water element in the air and straightened up.
The "snap" leather bag did not reach Jedi's hand, but it scraped on the long bone spurs of a sand ridge dragon, and the strong impact force caused the bag to crack, splashing everywhere, like a shower, and all the sand ridge dragons frantically competed for this rare water.
Jedi looked at the broken leather bags with regret, and had to take the opportunity to escape with the Picasso siblings.
He was carrying a space ring, but unfortunately this equipment was not omnipotent, it could not store living things, nor could it store edible things, otherwise when it was taken out again, it would have completely deteriorated and could not be eaten.
Space magic is quite esoteric science, even the best masters of space magic, the understanding of space is very limited, no one has yet understood the internal composition of magic space, do not understand why life cannot exist there, many times they just use space magic by groping, but can not understand its structure.
Fleeing from the sand ridge mountain with no danger, Picasso said: "What the hell is this, is there any more bizarre monster in the Sauron Empire?"
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Jedi looked at him with an interesting look and smiled, "If I'm not mistaken, you're from the Sauron Empire" Picasso's face flushed, and he smiled: "We already know each other, why bother to tell it" He thought for a moment, suddenly stopped, and said solemnly to Jedi: "I promise, after this imperial crisis is resolved, I will definitely confess my identity to you" Jedi patted him on the shoulder and said, "It doesn't matter if you say it or not, what I care about is not who you are, but your people."
Today, you accompany me from birth to death, and you are my brothers and friends who share life and death."
Sallyster's eyes were a little red, and she bit her lip: "Water, the water is gone, it's all my fault." ” "It's not your fault, don't blame yourself."
Jedi gently wiped away her tears and quipped, "How can there be no water, you see, you're making water right now." ” Picasso said with a stinky face: "Ahem, please don't flirt in front of me" Sally's face flushed with shame, and she said angrily: "You two don't want mother-in-law, mother-in-law, mother-in-law, it's really numb, let's go quickly, it's not time to be born and die, wait until you catch up with the Seven Princes." ” Jedi shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Unless we turn back here, the day of birth and death will soon come."
Three days later, they had run out of water, and four days later, the Picasso siblings had thirsty lips that were chapped and oozing blood.
Jedi was in slightly better shape, but the feeling of the dry breath in his throat was also tormenting him.
Jedi is a demon wolf, he has an instinctive knack for finding water, and there are many undercurrents under the desert, which he can definitely sense with his sense of smell.
But where they passed now was an endless stretch of yellow sand, and there was no water source under the sand.
Jedi found that the three of them had lost their way since the hurricane blew that day with fly ash, and they couldn't find a single point of terrain on the map.
It stands to reason that this road is supposed to be a grassland, and there will be some nomadic tribes, but in fact it is a barren land.
"You stay, stay in the shade, try to relax your body, don't waste your strength, I'll look nearby, if you find a water source, it's best, if you can't find it, we'll go back" "Jedi" looked at him in surprise as she was thirsty and already crumbling.
It's too dry to gather even a little water element, she once tried to condense into some water bombs, but failed, this is a forbidden demon realm created by heaven and earth specifically for water magic, and magicians who have always been regarded as gods by mortals can't do anything.
"Lolita is important to me, but you are also important to me," said Jeddy, and then turned and ran wildly, and Sally chased after two steps, feeling dizzy and panting, and fell to her knees on the yellow sand.
Jedi ran over two sand dunes and looked back to see that the Picasso siblings were no longer in sight, and let out a long howl and reverted to his original form.
The current wolf king, Jedi Sakr, was very different from his previous appearance, his body had become stronger, and a saber-toothed tiger might look like a kitten in front of him, and his size was almost as large as the sand ridged dragon he had encountered a few days ago.
The first time Jedi recovered his body, it was the bloodbath of President Gibson's family, that time he found that his body had become stronger, this time he was looking for water in the desert, and the changes in his body were very different from the original, but he had learned from the goddess Daji that the "Heart of Tye" necklace contained divine power to transform his body, except for the novelty, there was not much surprise.
He couldn't use the Flying Boots, which roughly orient them to the Tagore Empire based on solar energy, but he couldn't accurately lock on to his target in a small area.
Once in the air, he can't see the way back, and running like a wolf in this way, he can smell his own scent and come back here.
In his original form, his body curved smoothly and simply, by no means as bloated as that of the Sand Ridge Dragon, his slender and powerful limbs supported his strong back, and his two short knife-like erect ears towered above his head, he was the most beautiful wolf.
His hair had turned completely golden, and the sun shone on it, dazzling with golden light.
Jedi let out a low roar and ran like a gust of wind into the depths of the desert Picasso dug in vain in the sand for a long time, and then stopped in despair, using the sword inlaid with precious stones, but such a precious sword was now more valuable than a bowl of water.
"Alas, the greatest enemy of breaking into the desert is not those fierce barbarian soldiers, but there is a lack of water, no wonder the empire is not capable of conquering the desert when it is strong," Picasso said in a hoarse voice as he climbed the high slope.
Sally hid in the shadow of the sand dunes, opened her eyes and said: "Brother, don't walk around, try to avoid consuming physical strength and water, I think Jedi has more ways than us in the desert, if he finds water, it is best, if he can't find it, I'm afraid we can only return to the empire." ” Picasso sighed, and was about to roll down the dunes, when he suddenly saw something out of the corner of his eye, walking in this desert for a few days, except for the yellow sand, the occasional white animal bones, he had not seen anything else, that touch of green came into view, Picasso couldn't help but shake up.
"What is that, what is that" Picasso staggered forward a few steps, standing on tiptoe at the top: "Come on, there must be an oasis where there is a tree in Sally" When Sally heard this, she immediately got up, and now the temptation of water was too great for them, even if they put a bowl of water in front of them and clearly told him that the water was poisonous, I am afraid they would not be able to resist it and drink it.
Sally climbed the sand dunes, and Picasso excitedly pointed to the distance and said: "Look, there, there, there must be water there" As he let go of his legs and ran wildly, Sarister exclaimed, "Brother, Jedi hasn't come back yet" Picasso didn't look back and said: "He won't be so fast, let's go drink some water first, and we can bring him a few bags" When Sally heard this, she followed him and ran towards the shadow, and the two of them climbed several sand dunes in succession, and their movements slowed down from the physical strength of the excitement of the moment.
When they climbed a hill again, the oasis that seemed to be getting closer and closer was gone, and the yellow sand was still endless in the distance.
"Mirage, it turned out to be a mirage" Picasso couldn't even take a step.
"Brother, look there, look," said Sallyste, pointing suddenly to a sand dune in the distance.
Picasso glanced feebly, and saw more than a dozen desert dwellers dressed as fast horses around the sand dunes and disappear from sight.
Picasso said with straight eyes: "Mirage, that's all a mirage" After speaking, he fell on his back with one hand.
Sally was shocked, and hurriedly supported him, put his head on her lap, and called anxiously: "Brother, brother" Picasso twitched his chapped lips and smiled wryly: "I never knew that thirst was so painful" "Boom", a relatively light, but dense drum sound.
They had been walking in the desert for so long, and they knew that some of the dunes would sound drums when the sand flowed, but there was not even a little wind on this day, how could the dunes flow Sallyster held Picasso and looked up at the golden sand dunes and the clear blue sky crossed a well-defined line, and a man flashed out of the line.
First the head, the shoulders, the body, the high head of the horse, the body of the horse, and then more people appeared.
Sally patted her brother's shoulder in surprise and said urgently, "Brother, look at it, look at it" The masked cloth towel of the person in front of the head had been loosened and hung down on his shoulders, and the face was clearly the ninth princess Camilla they were chasing.
Picasso closed his eyes and sighed: "Don't make any noise, Sally, just let me die like this" "Look, Ninth Princess" Sally has not been in a big position for a long time, and at this time, in a hurry, she slapped her brother in the face, Picasso sat up in response, turned his head to look, and couldn't help but be stunned: "Sure enough, this time it's not a mirage."
Of course not, he even heard the sound of the horse's hooves kicking the yellow sand, Picasso became excited, pointed to the ninth princess and said, "Stand still and don't run" The ninth princess was full of panic and anxiety, and was hurrying away, when she saw someone in front of her, although the Picasso brothers and sisters were embarrassed, she still recognized the identities of the two, and was surprised by herself, only to hear Picasso shout in a hoarse voice: "Leave the water and leave" "Get out" The ninth princess didn't have the slightest intention of entanglement with him, she whipped down with a volley, flicked the horse's head, and rushed over more than three feet away.
Picasso was whipped on the shoulder, and before he could wake up, he saw that the dozen or so fast horses had rushed in front of him, and several large claws appeared on the sand dunes behind him, and the elephants with fangs and claws threw crabs into the pot to be boiled.
It's just that these chelicas are a little too big, and there is a slow knight who is "clicked" by a big claw, and even the person with the horse vise is cut into two, and the first half of the human corpse and the horse body also rushed forward for a moment, spraying Picasso's face with blood.
Then, countless huge monsters that resembled both crabs and scorpions, with their carapace white, rushed up waving their claws with large claws.
Picasso, who was still half-dead just now, suddenly seemed to have cramps, threw his sister with his right arm at a knight who had just rushed over, and he hurried two steps to grab the tail of a knight's horse, and the terrible giant claw "clicked" against his buttocks: