If Lei Er really said directly to let him go, he really wouldn't believe it.
After hesitating for less than half a second, Mustache directly took the ball and stuffed it into his mouth, swallowing it decisively.
Huh!
This taste...
In addition to being salty, there is also a faint smell of armpit odor.
Mustache's eyes couldn't help but fall on Lei Er's armpit.
Thinking like this, he almost vomited out everything he had eaten for lunch.
At the critical moment of life and death, Mustache endured the situation and even took the initiative to open his mouth wide for others to check.
"Very good." Lei was very satisfied. "As you think, this meatball is not a good thing. Of course, you won't die for the time being."
He patted Mustache on the shoulder and almost knocked him to the ground.
"But don't worry. As long as you wait about fifty miles west of the stone forest in half a month, we will give you the antidote there."
"Of course, it's up to you whether you go or not. The east-west trade line has been cut off for so long, so it's a good time to make money. We still have to go west, and we don't have much time to wait for you."
The mustache was sweating profusely: "The little one will definitely go."
Lei Er ignored him, took out three more pills, turned to look at the other three people with a smile.
"Three..."
The three of them shuddered. Before Lei Er could finish his words, they couldn't wait to grab the meatballs and swallowed them hard.
The next day, when it was still dark, the four horse thieves who had been defecating for a long time were driven out with dark circles under their eyes.
Traveling in the desert was not easy, so Lei Er was not too ruthless and at least returned their horses, water and food to them.
The four people on the horse were restless, and from time to time there was a whirling sound behind them.
It wasn't until they had walked nearly ten miles and could no longer see or hear any movement behind them that the four of them dared to speak out.
"What do you think they gave us to eat?"
"It feels like a laxative."
"That's a nice thought. It must be poison. Otherwise they wouldn't be so generous and let us go."
"Yes, they are obviously not afraid of us snitching."
snort!
Mustache snorted coldly: "They were just a team exploring the road, and they broke into the north of the stone forest after getting lost. There was no caravan behind them. What secrets are you afraid of us telling?"
Apart from a few thin horses, this kind of team has no robbery value.
The leaders in the stone forest will not send out large teams to search unless they have eaten too much and have nothing to do.
Besides, it's winter now, and it's windy and sandy.
As long as the wind blows, the sand that does not return to the desert can easily erase the other party's whereabouts. In the vast sea of sand, people may not be able to find it later even if they want to search.
"If they are really afraid of us snitching," Mustache reminded, "wouldn't it be safer to kill them with one knife?"
The others looked unhappy, but they could only nod in agreement.
"Then how should we reply when we go back?" they asked.
Mustache muttered while rubbing his belly.
Gululu.
Before he could think of anything, there was another earth-shattering roar in his stomach.
He fell down from his mount with a roar, rolled and crawled to the back of the hill, and soon there was a crashing sound.
Others turned dark.
Listening to that familiar voice, their stomachs seemed to be rolling.
The three of them were so frightened that their calves were trembling, and they quickly let their mounts move forward for a few dozen feet before stopping and waiting.
But it makes no sense.
Not long after, they also fell off their horses with a cry, and ran behind different sand dunes with their bellies in their hands...
I don’t know how long it took, but Mustache finally walked out, hunched over like a shrimp, with his pants half lifted.
In just a short time, he seemed to have lost weight again.
He crookedly moved to the side of his mount, struggled for a long time with mustache before climbing onto the horse's back with great difficulty. He immediately lay on his back like a dead dog and did not dare to move, just letting his mount walk as he pleased.
Fortunately, horses are social creatures, and they will automatically follow other companions as long as the owner does not say anything.
When the sun rose, the others returned to their mounts.
When they looked at each other, their eye sockets were sunken, their lips were white, and their faces were bloodless, like zombies.
"Is everyone okay?" Mustache, who was the first to recover, asked.
"about to die."
"I won't die just yet."
“It’s hard to say how many more times it will come.”
…
"Why don't we just say we met a sand wolf when we go back, and the others won't escape." Mustache suggested.
The others didn't have any ideas, and they were almost exhausted just now and couldn't concentrate on thinking, so they nodded in agreement.
They even tore their clothes and made some scratches on the horse's buttocks to make them suspicious.
North.
Ren Ning watched the four people leave with a telescope.
Lei Er walked over and spat out the bones he had just eaten in his mouth, "Old Ren, what should we do now?"
"Everyone go west, bypass the stone forest and then exit the grassland."
Lei Er was not surprised, "What about this stone forest?"
Ren Ning understood what he meant, "Yes, this is really a good place."
According to the four horse thieves, there is enough water in the stone forest, and unfamiliar people can easily lose their way after entering the stone forest. It is most suitable for small tribes to settle down and live.
In addition, this is the middle of the Xiliang Grassland, which has an important geographical location. From now on, the distance will not be too far whether going east or west.
The ones closest to the Stone Forest are the relatively weak Luoxi tribe. They don’t have many people, and they also have few cattle and sheep. Therefore, almost no one grazes the large grassland in the south of the Stone Forest.
This kind of place is simply tailor-made for the current Kailun. If you don't find a way to occupy it, it will be outrageous for both humans and gods.
"When you get out of the grassland, you go back to Kailun. I will go and feel the situation in the stone forest alone. When you come to deliver the 'antidote' in half a month, take Zhui Feng with you to pick me up."
"Are you alone?" Lei Er shook his head, "It's too dangerous."
This is a desert without cover. Even if there are many blind spots in the stone forest, it is not easy to hide a stranger.
"Don't worry." Ren Ning laughed and patted the small package on Zhui Feng's back, "Thanks to Big Head, I have an extra secret weapon."
"As long as I'm careful, even if I stand in front of the enemy, they may not be able to find me."
General Lei Er was doubtful, but he knew Ren Ning's abilities.
After asking a few more times, seeing that Ren Ning was always confident, Lei Er stopped worrying.
The team walked west for another half month, and finally saw grassland ahead.
well.
Standing on the grass, Lei Er let out a long sigh, with a rare sad look on his face.
He said: "There is no snow in the grassland this year."
"Not only this year," Gu Datou, who was standing next to him, came closer, "it didn't fall last year either."
In recent years, the climate of the grasslands has become increasingly abnormal.
There was a severe drought before and then a flood. The sandstorms in the first two months are still fresh in my memory.
When they were serving in the fortress, although the snow was not heavy, it covered the ground.
Now there is no snow in the sky or on the ground.
It seems that the day when everyone in the grassland will go east will come sooner or later, and it is inevitable.
When they arrived at the grassland, the team moved much faster.
"Zhui Feng, be good, I still have something to do." Ren Ning patted the dark horse who insisted on following him, "You go back with Lei Er and Ben Lei first. Then come together to pick me up in a few days."
After some hard work, Zhui Feng was forcibly led by Lei Er and headed west.
Ren Ning himself got on the thin horse left by Sweetie and headed east alone.