Chapter 914: Journey to the Desert
These slaves were a little curious when they saw their new master, but then they learned that their master was going to be in Chikamis. The seven camel horsemen and sand lizard cavalry all showed horror. However, as slaves, they had no choice but to accept their fate, but their expressions could not hide a trace of despair.
Seeing that it was noon, Li Ran led these people to the inn where they were staying before. After renting a courtyard, he also asked the little girl to bring some food in the morning.
As slaves, they might not have had a full meal for many days. When they saw the food coming, they temporarily forgot the despair of going to Chikamis next, and they grabbed the food and rushed to eat it. Seeing them like this, Huan Bingnan also quickly asked the inn girl for some food and helped her to bring the food over.
Seeing the little girl next to the master, these slaves who had been hungry for many days were somewhat moved. After quickly getting up to take it, they also gave a special hat-holding ceremony to Huanbing Nannan, Li Ran and others.
"Okay, you guys eat quickly. If there is not enough food, just say it," Li Ran said with a smile.
After a while, as he and his teammates had almost finished their meals, seeing the slaves stopping the snatching food, Li Ran looked at them and said, "I know your mood now, but no one said that going to Mount Chikami is a dead end. We went there out of curiosity. As for the threats along the way, we believe that we have some good guards, and we should also have some self-protection ability. In addition, we have two good guides. As long as you can cooperate fully along the way, I believe we have a chance to get there."
After a while, Li Ran continued, "Of course, as your masters, we don't want to live here for a long time, and we don't want to drive you to be a cow and horse for the rest of our lives. So I also give you a promise here that as long as you can get there, I will give you your freedom, and each person will give you fifty gold coins for future livelihoods."
Hearing this, these people, whether they were camel horse riders or sand lizard cavalry, all their eyes lit up. The unique sharp eyes of the sand people made them believe that the person in front of them did not deceive them, and there was no need to deceive them. Therefore, under the leadership of a sand lizard cavalry, everyone also expressed their respect to Li Ran respectfully, and at the same time expressed their efforts to cooperate with the adventure.
"Okay, after eating, you can go and rest for a while. We will go to purchase food and equipment in the afternoon, and you can also give some advice." After saying this, Li Ran also looked at the ten sand lizard cavalrymen and smiled and said, "Of course, there are also your mounts, sand lizards, and cavalry without mounts, and they are still called out to be a cavalry. You will choose by yourself when you are not good at your eyes. If you don't complain to me, then be careful, I will leave you alone in the desert."
Hearing Li Ran say this, the slaves who were still worried just now couldn't help but burst into laughter. Although the harsh environment created their perverse character, after losing everything, they met such a big master and gave them a glimmer of hope. They were also sincerely grateful to this person, especially when any of them were high elf warriors who were afraid of them.
In fact, there are elves in the desert, but their number is very rare and rarely appears in cities. Most of them live in some remote oasis. Compared with the elves around their master, except for the two pointed ears, their skin is not so white, but grayish-white.
But no matter which kind of elves, they all know that these guys are not easy to bully. They are very agile and their magic weapons are even sharper. Although they can be sold at a good price, even the most powerful adventure team dare not easily make these guys' ideas. Don't say that their home often has strong biological defenses. Sometimes even the terrifying immortal thorn trees will sometimes become their partner.
After gaining the loyalty of these people, the situation of these prisoners was different when they fought for freedom. As they went shopping for supplies in the afternoon, two of the camel horsemen also told Li Ran something.
This is that in addition to being excellent camel horsemen, they not only can take care of more than two camel horses, but also can control desert dragon beasts. Although they cannot become the kind of desert dragon beast cavalry fighting, a desert dragon beast can carry a large amount of supplies. While reducing the load on each camel horse, the speed of the entire team can be accelerated a lot.
And they later said that because the Desert Dragon Beast itself is a powerful native creature, the deterrent power they emit can protect them from harassment by many creatures.
Li Ran was very happy to hear what they said. After asking the two brothers Zheng Yanbo to talk for a while, they bought four super-level desert dragon beasts at a relatively reasonable price. Two of them were turned into military talismans for backup, and the other two super-level desert dragon beasts were handed over to these two people.
With these two powerful desert dragon beasts, everyone, including those slaves, had a lot of confidence. When they saw their masters, they bought these expensive desert dragon beasts. The price of each one was not cheaper than the slaves combined. They were even convinced by what Li Ran said before. They didn't even feel sorry for buying the desert dragon beasts with a step. How could they care about buying their small money? Maybe they would be happy after that, and they would have a good life for the rest of their lives.
With this incident, the ten sand lizard cavalry were even more polite. They came to the market to look around and really picked some good desert lizards. In fact, two desert lizards even reached the top level and were tightly held by two of the strongest sand lizard cavalry.
Looking at the sand lizard cavalry who fought for the mounts, they saw the fierce competition of the sand people from them at this moment. Li Ran smiled slightly and stopped Qian Hui who wanted to order them to stop. Until they spontaneously decided the victory and defeat based on their own strength and firmly grabbed their desert lizards. Li Ran waved his hand and took them to select some saddles including camel horses and desert dragon beasts.
It was not until evening that they had purchased all the items. After returning to the inn, Li Ran asked them to rest for two days. He and Xia Houben and others took turns to go offline and took a nap. On the morning of the third day, he left the desert border town with the only girl from the inn.
From a distance, this is a team of two desert dragon beasts, more than 20 sand camel horses and ten sand lizard cavalrymen. Judging from the number of people alone, it can only be regarded as a small adventure group.
At this time, because of curiosity, Li Ran and others rode on a camel horse, and the other five camel hands were taking care of two batches of camel horses. The camel horse they rode only carried a small amount of supplies, while the camel horse connected by a rope behind them was carrying a large amount of tents, clothes and food.
In addition to the other ten sand lizard cavalry, there were twelve camel horses, and there were an elf warrior sitting each. Five of them were elves sword masters with super-level strength, five were top-level elf archers, and two were elves druids in long robes.
The light body and flexible body allow these elves warriors and druids to sit very steadily on these camel horses. Although they cannot become cavalrymen, they are completely free of problems for taking steps.
The cold weather was still rushing in the morning, but after leaving for less than an hour or two, the scorching wind and sand had already made everyone take off their thick clothes quickly. But even so, Li Ran and others still felt hotter and hotter, and soon they became dry.
At this time, as the sand lizard cavalry suddenly waved their hands, everyone slowed down slowly. Soon, the camel horse that sat down seemed a little uneasy, and suddenly, with a rotten smell in the air, shocked everyone.
However, the sand lizard cavalry did not seem to care much about this. After separating the two of them, they reported that a caravan in front might have been attacked, and the body had begun to rot under the scorching sun.
After walking for more than ten minutes, Li Ran and others also saw the attacked caravan. The blood stains on the ground had long been buried by wind and sand. At this time, only some scavengers were eating the bodies of sandmen and camel horses on the ground. The arrows and broken weapons scattered on the ground meant that this was not a natural disaster.
Although from the expression, whether it is the sand lizard cavalry or the camel horseman, these people of the sand tribe seem to care about the deaths of these similar people, when passing by, they still silently recited a few prayer words for the dead on their mounts, meaning that they would return to God's arms.
But Li Ran and others strangely discovered that the prayers these people read seemed to be different. After inquiring with the brothers Zheng Yanbo, they realized that the people of the Sha clan had a lot of faith. Sometimes there were different gods of belief among teammates in the same team, or even among the family, so different prayers appeared.
Seeing that his guardian seemed to be quite interested in this, Zheng Yanbo continued: "For example, most of the sand lizard cavalry here believe in a god named Conschia. It is rumored that this god evolved from the desert ancestral lizard. There are temples in many places, while ordinary sand people believe in the desert god and the dark god. But you also know that these gods named after their regions or environments are mostly gods in a certain area, and their names are also different. So in general, this cursed desert is a place where there is no shortage of gods."
Hearing Zheng Yanbo say this, Li Ran and others couldn't help but nod. After chatting for a while, it was noon, and under the leadership of these two brothers, they came to a hill to take a break and temporarily avoid the hot sunshine at noon.
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Chapter completed!