After the fairy disappeared

Chapter 25
The scene just now made the white dog bark, turned around and ran away.

The monster gave chase, and soon both disappeared behind the dunes.

The trooper in the rear line cursed fiercely.There was one less escorted guest, and the salary he received was correspondingly less.

This is the greeting from Panlong Desert to everyone.

For all the teams who witnessed all this, the original relaxed atmosphere disappeared instantly.

Zeng Feixiong withdrew his gaze and murmured: "It's his fault. On Hongya Road, children and dogs have to be tied up."

"It's the first time I've seen such a big yellow flounder." He Lingchuan was speechless.Yuanzheng often hunts, and knows that yellow flounder is not a fish, but a monster lurking in the desert and Gobi, specializing in ambushing small animals passing by.

It can dive and float freely in the desert, running faster than four-legged creatures.

But this thing is at most a little bigger than a dog, even if it becomes a monster, it shouldn't be the size it was just now!
"This is the Panlong Desert." Zeng Feixiong has escorted the caravan through many times, and he is no stranger to it, "The resentful souls affect everything here, and even the spiritual monsters will be alienated after staying in the desert for a long time. "

This is the reason, so although the sand leopards also enter the Panlong Desert to hunt, they usually stay in the West Mountain to live and reproduce.

……

The magnificent desert remains unchanged for a long time.

The journey is calm and boring. As long as you don't take a step outside Hongya Road, you only need to deal with the hot wind, the sun, and the sandstorm.

For a prepared and experienced team, this can all be tolerated.

After walking for three days, the team finally arrived at Baiyuan Station.

This is a relay station on Hongya Road, which is used for business travelers to rest. Its predecessor was an ancient city.

There are more than a dozen ancient cities on the Panlong Wasteland, and only a few of them survived a hundred years later.Baiyuan City was also swallowed up by yellow sand long ago. It was the latecomers who excavated its old base and built several rows of houses to stand on the side of Hongya Road.

Like Hongya Road, the area of ​​the ancient city will not be attacked by resentful spirits and monsters, so it becomes a good place for business travelers to stop halfway.

When the team entered Baiyuan Station, He Chunhua hurried over to negotiate with the post officials.

Yes, Heishui City has a post station here, and has assigned special personnel to manage it.However, the control here is very loose, not as strict as in Da Yuan's country.

In this kind of time, in this kind of place, the power of money is manifested.

Shiragaki Station allows passing business travelers to camp in tents, food and water are also sold here, and if people want a luxury, they can also rent cabins.

Of course, the Panlong Desert itself has no water source, and all ingredients, clean water, and building materials have to be transported from Heishui City.

Where there is demand, there is business. Those who want to do this business must first establish a relationship with post officials, and then spend a lot of time transporting things to barren lands.All kinds of costs are piled up, and the basic package of a steamed bun + a bottle of water costs [-] yuan, isn't it expensive?

A bowl of mutton steamed buns, only the kind with oily meat and no diced meat, sells for two yuan, not expensive, right?
An overnight hut, the rent is five taels of silver, and you feel like you are taking advantage of it, right?

If you still want to take a hot bath in the desert to wash away the dust and fatigue on the road——

Sun Guoshi, Nian Duwei, and Mr. He all thought so, so He Junshou could only spend money.

For this expense alone, five acres of good farmland and permanent real estate can be bought near Heishui City.

After taking a bath and eating half full with a few luxury set meals, He Lingchuan finally recovered.

With his strong body, he was exhausted after walking for the past three days, and he didn't know how difficult the road ahead would be.

On the other hand, He Chunhua still seems to be able to handle tasks with ease, obviously not as weak as he looks on the surface.

He Lingchuan also helped Zeng Feixiong buy a few sets of meals, otherwise he would have eaten cold steamed buns with the soldiers because he was too cash-strapped.

Zeng Feixiong felt sorry and refused several times, but unfortunately he was not as firm as Mr. He, so he could only feel ashamed and thanked him in the end.

However, He Lingchuan knew that this person was straight but not reckless, and this time he was the one who led the troops into the desert, so he patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's good to eat and drink, so you have the strength to work, and the safety of our father and son will be entrusted to you. "

"Master He and you have treated me with great kindness, and you have solved my future troubles, and I will repay you with all my heart and brain!"

"That's so serious." He Lingchuan laughed, "By the way, I heard that your father is the only living person who returned from the ruins of Panlong?"

Zeng Feixiong looked gloomy: "Yes, 20 years ago someone paid a lot of money to ask him to be a guide, and he was the only one who survived. But he has lost his mind since then, and even the great shaman can't cure him. No one knows what happened to them He only uttered one word all day—water.”

"Water?" There is indeed a shortage of water in the desert. What kind of crime did Zeng Feixiong's father suffer so that he can't forget water even after he went crazy?

At this time, Sun Fuping came to call for someone to call several leaders to his hut for a meeting.

The guards went outside and brought a lot of yellow sand in for him and poured it on the table.

A simple sand table is ready.

"Red Cliff Road, we are almost done." Zeng Feixiong gesticulated on the sand table, "The day after tomorrow, we will leave the main road and enter the desert. The real test will begin from then on."

"Hongya Road originally connected to Panlong City." Said Yunbing, at least the soldiers and food must be transported to the edge of the city. Gone."

He drew a circle on the sand table: "If you want to go to Panlong City, you have to take a long detour and enter through the gap in Yingshan."

This long distance is not on the Red Cliff Road, and the danger they are about to face increases greatly.

The journey of the past three days has been as relaxing as a vacation by comparison.

Then everyone discussed various countermeasures.

Although the He family father and son had a rift with Sun and Nian, it was a matter of their own lives, so they discussed it with special focus.

He Lingchuan has been listening silently until the discussion is almost finished, and then he asks a long-standing puzzle:

"As an isolated city in an enclave, Panlong City has stood firm for 32 years despite being attacked from all sides. It can be said to be a super god. Then why was it broken in the end?" This is also the mystery of Panlong Desert, whether it is history books or local legends, No conclusive statements were left.Only the storyteller left a far-fetched explanation, "Could it be that, as the locals in Heishui City said, Panlong City lost its backbone because of Zhong Shengguang's illness and death?"

People tend to find a reasonable explanation for unsolved mysteries.Zhong Shengguang has guarded Panlong City for more than 30 years, and he has suddenly turned from a young man to an old man, and the long-term battle will cause huge damage to his body and mind.This explanation is considered the most reliable among the many legends that He Lingchuan has heard.

He is curious about the truth.

"According to the clues I have, there is some truth in this legend, Panlong City has indeed lost its backbone." Sun Fuping poured himself a glass of water, a glass of water cost twelve Wen, "But it's not Zhong Shengguang, but the Red General! "

(End of this chapter)