Three Philosophical Questions for Travelers

Violet kept staring at the sand dunes, but couldn't see anything interesting, so she simply stopped looking.However, the moment she looked away, she suddenly saw something out of the corner of her eye.

Something seemed to be running over the dunes!

She stood up abruptly, a very dangerous premonition rose in her heart.There's something odd about this place.

"What sound?" the boy asked.

Violet heard it too, and there was a strange noise behind the dunes.It seemed like a wild animal was screaming, or someone was crying, and after a while, it seemed to be laughing again.Even in the daytime, the sound is eerie.The slave owners heard it too, and they all looked in the direction of the sand dunes. The mercenaries whispered to each other and took up their weapons.

At this time, a row of camels slowly appeared on the sand dunes, and a row of masked knights sat on the camels, and the knights held a row of shining scimitars.

The oldest old coachman let out a woman's scream, and he shouted: "It's broken, it's a sand robber!"

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sand, five

sand, five

There are pirates in the sea, bandits in the mountains, and desert bandits in the desert.Wherever you can hide your tracks, there will be robbers.

And the desert ones are often more difficult to deal with than the sea and mountain ones.The more dangerous the environment, the easier it is to create vicious people.The desert is so barren that no one can survive without real skills.One of the books Violet has read mentions sand robbers, saying that the most terrifying thing in the desert is the wrath of the Lord of Seven Colors—that is, black sandstorms, and the second most terrifying thing is sand robbers.Then there are wolves, poisonous snakes and scorpions.

The sand bandits stand on the dunes with the sun behind them.The afternoon sun elongated the shadows of these robbers and shrouded the convoy.This is a wonderful attack location, the robbers can charge condescendingly, but the convoy will see the sun when they look up, and get stabbed in the eye.

The camel snorted impatiently, and made a harsh sound of grinding its teeth.

The majestic slave owner hid in the car in fright. He let the slaves squeeze on top of him and hid him. He shrank in the corner of the crowd, not daring to vent his breath.

The mercenary captain tried to communicate with these robbers, but before he could speak, a throwing knife was dropped.The captain fell off the camel in fright, and the robbers laughed strangely.Then the robbers rushed down the sand dunes shouting slogans, they shouted "Shirahimata", which means invulnerable.

The mercenary captain tidied up his formation in embarrassment, and the mercenaries surrounded him, trying to fight the bandits.Although there are not as many robbers as mercenaries, these robbers all have camels, and each one is very fierce.

Violet is afraid, because the desert robbers do all kinds of evil and kill without blinking an eye. If she falls into the hands of the robbers, she will be insulted, dismembered, and abandoned in the wilderness.

Violet is excited because this is her chance.

Once the two sides fought, no one paid any attention to these kneeling slaves.

Outside the caravan, the two parties have already started a chaotic battle.Shouts, screams, and metal clashes were intertwined; blood stuck the sand together, but it disappeared as soon as the wind blew; The caravan brushed past her face.Violet was still in shock, when there was a scream outside, a mercenary fell into the caravan and smashed the cover of the car.

The slaves huddled in the car in fright, not daring to move.Ariel Hess stood up and said, "Ma'am, Chance!" He said, pointing outside.

Violet followed his gaze, and saw an empty camel—there was a robber on the camel, but the robber was killed and the camel fell down.The camel lost its owner but didn't run away, just stood on the ground in a daze.People are fighting together, cursing and shouting, and no one cares about this big guy.

What made Violet even more excited was that there were water bags and bags hanging on the camel's saddle belt. Every time the sand bandits in the desert came out to "hunt", they would be fully prepared. There must be water and food in there.

This is my chance!

Violet's heart was itchy, she touched the dagger through her clothes, and thought: This may be the choice of Lord Seven Colors.

She and Ariehus slipped out of the caravan and ran towards the camels.

Even in a chaotic battle, two running slaves are enough to attract people's attention.Seeing this scene, a robber immediately cursed, saying: "Greedy slave!"

The boy screamed like a girl, and he kicked up the sand on the ground to hit the man.The man slashed at the sand, and then covered his eyes—the sand blinded his eyes.Then a mercenary sneaked up on him from behind and cut off the robber's neck with a knife.

The mercenary drew the knife from the robber's neck, and said to Violet, "Go back, slave!"

But Violet was already on the camel by this time, and she said, "Ariheth, hurry up!" She stretched out her hand towards the boy.

Someone next to him cursed: "Fuck you, slave!" Then the man threw a machete at Violet, and the gleaming machete spun and hit her.Violet can't dodge, she's not that agile, she's just a slave.

However, Violet has been unlucky for so long, and the accumulated good luck finally broke out at this moment.The moment the scimitar hit her, it just rotated to the handle.Then the knife flicked on her shoulder, and then fell straight down.The place where the tip of the knife fell was just the camel's buttocks.The scimitar was so sharp that it pierced into the camel's flesh in one fell swoop.The camel suffered from pain and ran forward like crazy.Violet sat on the camel and was so knocked that she almost flew up. She lay on the back of the camel and hugged the hump in front of her tightly.

The camel rushed far away at once, and Violet heard someone shouting from behind: "Ma'am! Wait for me, wait for me!" She looked back and saw Ariheth running towards her with deep feet and shallow feet.

"Camel, camel!" She tugged on the rein, "Let's go back and save people, shall we?"

The camel snorted and continued on its way.

"I said go back and save people!" Violet tugged on the rein vigorously, but how could she be as strong as a camel?No matter how hard she tried, the camel was indifferent.In this way, the camel ran forward and quickly climbed the sand dune.If she can get over the dunes, Violet will be safe.At this moment, Violet thought to herself: Ariheth, I'm sorry, it's not that I didn't save you, but that the camel is really disobedient.I can only pray for you silently.

Strangely, however, the camel stopped the moment it reached the dune.It snorted again, then sniffed the ground with its nose, and looked around.Then the camel screamed, suddenly turned around and rushed down the sand dunes, returning the same way.

Violet was puzzled by the strange behavior of the camel—it was definitely not going back to save people.Then why did it suddenly run back?

Before he had time to think, the camel had already rushed into the crowd.The camel was three meters tall and weighed over a thousand catties. It was more powerful than a war horse in its rampage.It knocked down mercenaries and robbers alike, and its huge hooves would break bones in an instant.

Seeing Violet come back, the boy shouted excitedly, "Ma'am! I'm here!"

And Violet shouted: "Get out of the way!"

The camel almost rushed in front of him, and Ariheth realized that the situation was not good.He swooped down to the side sand, and the camel charged past where he had been standing.The boy looked at Violet in shock, and cursed: "Damn lady, you almost killed me!"

"The camel is crazy, I can't control it!"

Strange to say, as soon as Violet finished saying this, the other camels also went crazy.Whether it was the robber's mount or the camels of the convoy, they all made strange noises at the same time.Then the camels ran like headless chickens.

Camels will not get lost in the desert, let alone be so crazy.Something must have frightened them.

what is it then?

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sand six

Unanimously, the most seasoned robbers and the oldest mercenaries dropped their weapons.The two ordered together: "Don't fight, go catch camels! We can't get out of the desert without camels."

The mercenaries and robbers hurried to catch their camels.But these camels didn't listen to their master at all, and a robber was kicked by a camel during the period.The captain said to himself: "Oh, it's really strange! I've never seen such a thing in my life." He looked up at the sky, and the sky was clear, "The black sandstorm didn't come either."

The most terrifying thing in the desert is the black sandstorm, which is the anger of Lord Seven Colors, leaving no blade of grass in its path.All living things fear it.But the weather is so good now, where is the sandstorm coming from?

It's not a sandstorm, what are camels afraid of?

Violet's camel circled in place, going east and west for a while.The camel didn't know the direction, it just ran blindly, as if it was willing to run to death.A camel is not a stupid animal, it has the intelligence to survive in the desert.Usually, camels know how to save energy better than anyone else.The animal would never go mad like this unless it was absolutely necessary.

But why is the camel mad?The sky is so clear, there are huge sand dunes in front of you, and there is a vast expanse of yellow sand all around - nothing unusual.

At this moment, Violet suddenly felt the sand dunes in front of her shake.

The camel also seemed to feel something, it stood still, looking at the sand dune.The camel made a rapid "whoosh" sound from its throat, as if it was extremely nervous.

Did the dunes really move?Violet couldn't help feeling chills all over as she thought about the events of the past few days.

It's not us circling the dunes, the dunes are chasing us.Just between this thought, she felt the sand under her feet start to shake.At the same time, there was a loud noise like an earthquake.

The camel let out a cry and knelt down on the spot!Violet immediately fell off the hump. She rolled on the sand dune and got up quickly.She remembered the scary legends in the desert. It is said that animals have more sensitive senses than humans, and they can detect the smell of demons.At this time, the animals would kneel on the ground and beg for mercy, hoping that the devil would let them go.

Ariheth shouted to her: "Ma'am, run! It's a devil bug!"

Why?What?Violet froze for a moment, and then felt that the sand under her feet was rising. In just a moment, a new sand dune rose under her feet.Violet couldn't stand still, and rolled down from the sand dune, and then heard a loud noise from behind, and countless dust was washed into the sky by something.

She was choking and coughing, and her vision blurred.There are people screaming in fear and camels moaning in pain.She forcefully opened her eyes, and through the sand and dust, she vaguely saw a wriggling tower.

Judging from the way it moved, it must be some kind of living thing.It came out from under the sand, and Violet couldn't see what kind of monster it was, but she knew that the farther away from this guy, the better!

"This way, ma'am! This way!" Ariehus waved to her from the roof of another caravan.

While running towards him, Violet looked back at the same time. At this time, the sand and dust gradually dispersed, and she could finally see the true appearance of the giant.

It was a gigantic worm bigger than a caravan.It has a centipede-like segmented body, and its mouth is cylindrical with red mucous membrane inside. There is a ring of sharp teeth around the cylindrical mouth, just like a lamprey. The mouth squirms , does not open up and down like a human being, but stretches around.

At this time, this terrifying big mouth was biting a camel, and it sucked the camel into the mouth bit by bit, and the ring of teeth was like a meat grinder, tearing and chewing the huge camel.When Violet was riding the camel, she felt that the camel was a giant, but at this moment, the camel seemed like a chicken.

Violet didn't dare to look any more, she ran to the caravan, got into the car and hid.The boy also jumped into the car and said to her very excitedly, "Devil bugs in the dunes! Right? I kid you not!"

Violet watched the monster from a distance, watching it eat a whole camel.After eating the four-legged camel, the monster turned to look at the two-legged people.

At this moment, the mercenaries and robbers don't need to fight anymore, survival is the most important thing.

The camel was so frightened that it knelt down and begged for mercy, so it couldn't run.The leader of the robbers yelled to gather the robbers together, and they all took out throwing knives and spears, as if they wanted to fight this monster.

The slaves all hid in the car, shivering; the slave master wanted to bury himself in the sand.

The mercenary captain regarded the monster as some kind of god. He raised his hands and chanted scriptures before kneeling down to it.

Then the god answered his prayer and swallowed him in one gulp.

At this moment, the fear in people's hearts broke out instantly.Mercenaries, robbers, and slaves all ran for their lives in a panic.These people were just like the camels just now, they had no direction, no goal, they just ran blindly.

Ariel Hess asked her, "Aren't we running, ma'am?"

Violet said: "If you run away, you will die faster."

Immediately afterwards, the giant worm went after those who fled.

This monster is so huge, but its movements are very agile.It swims in the sand as freely as a dolphin swims in the water.The monster was like a golden lightning, it shot over in the blink of an eye, bit a running man in one bite, and swallowed it whole.It would be no problem for a giant worm to devour a camel, let alone a living person.Violet saw its mouthparts wriggling, and its fangs were like sawtooths sawing, chewing, and swallowing people.

There were also a few daring men who fought back with spears and sabers.The metal weapons in the Western Regions are the best in the mainland, and they are very sharp, enough to cut through the carapace of insects.However, there is still thick flesh under the giant insect's carapace, and if you cut it down, it will only bleed some yellow water, and it will not hurt the muscles and bones.When the insect was injured, it immediately became angry and became more ferocious.

A thick warrior shouted the name of Lord of Seven Colors and jumped up to chop the tiger's abdomen. The tiger swayed and its body was whipped off.The samurai was smashed into the sand in one fell swoop, and the worm crushed him tightly with its body, and the man was crushed to pieces.

The leader of the robbers poked the worm's jaw with a spear, and the spear pierced halfway, and a thick yellow-green juice came out.The bug ate the pain and screamed piercingly.It opened its mouth wide and bit down on the bandit leader.The bandit leader is an experienced middle-aged hunter with quick movements and vigorous steps. He rolled on the sand, and the insects bit the ground and ate a mouthful of sand.Then a chunky man with an ax hit the worm's mouth with the axe.

Two of the giant worm's teeth were broken, and it screamed in pain.This time, it completely went crazy.

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sand seven

Violet has seen the cow go berserk.

It is a docile buffalo, which usually works tirelessly to plow the land for farmers. Even if it is beaten or ridden, it will not resist.But one summer, it seemed to have some kind of disease, and it started to go crazy.It galloped across the fields, knocking over fences and trampling crops.Ten people can't stop it even if they fight together.A child and a woman were killed on the spot, and a strong man's belly was pierced by a horn, bleeding profusely, and he died after two days of suffering.

Later, people stabbed it with a dung fork until it bleeds and consumed its vitality. Even so, it persisted for a long time before it fell down.Even after it fell down, it was very dangerous. The cow's hooves kicked wildly, and anyone who touched it would be kicked and broken.

This caused Violet to be very afraid of cows for a time.

From then on, Violet knew that the power of animals is far greater than that of humans, and once this kind of thing goes crazy, it is definitely beyond the control of humans.

Today, the giant worm also went crazy.It was so huge and so ugly that the cow that Violet was afraid of was just a walking steak in front of it.

The worm got out of the ground completely, and it rolled on the sand with its body.It was clumsy and stupid, but it worked.Its body is too huge, and when it rolls around, there is no place for people to stay in this area.Mercenaries and robbers were knocked to the ground, or thrown into the air.Fortunately, the caravan was some distance away, otherwise Violet and these slaves would surely have died.

Although the robbers still wanted their lives before, at this moment, Violet hoped that the robbers would win instead.

Ariehus hugged Violet's arm tightly, "Ma'am... we, we have to run." His lips were trembling.

Violet was surprisingly calm, "Where are you going?" she said.

Erikus looked around and said, "Go in the opposite direction, lady! Let's run in the opposite direction. The worms are chasing those robbers and camels. Let's run in the opposite direction."

Violet observed the surrounding situation—the bandit leader was organizing his people to move eastward, and seemed to want to use the terrain of the sand dunes to continue fighting the giant worm.Some mercenaries ran south, and some camels ran north. Although the bugs were huge and fast, people ran in different directions after all. Maybe a few lucky ones could survive.

But so what?You can hide from bugs, but you can't hide from the sun.Without water and camels, it won't be long before they are parched in the scorching sun.Violet did not run with them, because Violet knew that doing so would surely kill her.

The only way to survive is to grab a camel and get out of this hell.

There were several camels lying on the ground, and Violet wondered if she could use these camels to escape.While she was thinking about it, she heard Ariheth shout: "Be careful!"

The moment Violet turned her head, the slave owner threw her to the ground.The caravan shook violently.

"Bitch == goods!" The slave owner slapped her, "You are my property, don't try to run away!"

"None of us can run away!" Violet punched him on the chin, and the slave owner was stunned, "You, me, and others!" She hit the man's chin one after another, again and again.

The slave master roared and grabbed Violet by the neck.Violet struggled, but she was not as strong as this man.The slave owner's dirty nails were fastened into Violet's skin, and her neck was tightly bound by those hands, preventing any air from entering.There were stars in front of her eyes, and she felt like her lungs were about to explode.

She remembered the knife hidden in her robe, but the slave master was pressing on her tightly, and her hand could not remove the knife from her waist.The lack of oxygen made her gradually lose consciousness...

"Please let her go, sir!" Arix rushed forward.The boy put his arm around the slave master's throat. The slave master cursed, stretched out his hand to break his arm, and then grabbed the arm and threw the boy to the ground.The caravan shook again.And Violet took a deep breath and gradually regained consciousness.

"Bold slave!" The slave master sat on the skinny boy, punched him in the face, and tore off his hair. "You bastard, you bastard! You lose money, you blighted rat..." the boy screamed, his scalp was torn off in one piece, and his face was covered in blood.

Violet shook her head, and finally took out the dagger at her waist.At this time, the slave owner turned his back to her, unguarded.

She aimed at the back of the neck and tiptoed up.She was only three steps away from the slave master, but with every step her heart beat several times.

"Mouse, I'm going to pluck your hair and pinch your eyes!" The slave owner beat Arihes severely, and the car shook non-stop.Violet's center of gravity was unstable and she almost fell.At this moment Ariheth saw her, and the boy called out, "Ma'am, help me!"

The slave owner turned his head immediately, and Violet met his eyes, the sharp dagger gleaming.

"What are you doing!?" The slave owner widened his eyes.