Chapter 97 Expedition to the West (Fighting Ili Again 3)
All the way to the west, we hurried all the way, completely in a rush march, traveling under the stars and at night.
It took ten days to reach a small mountain village thirty miles outside Yili City, but Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) asked five hundred sergeants to camp on the spot.
Five groups of scouts were sent out, but the news when they came back was that Ming Yan was not found. All the restaurants and restaurants were open, and all the shopkeepers said that they had not seen the chief shopkeeper for many days; people from the "Shiqi Trading Company" also said that there was good news.
I haven’t seen General Manager Mingyan for a long time... Mingyan can’t be found anywhere. Where did Mingyan go?
The stone lions in the Western Governor's Mansion were squatting lazily as usual. I found out that the governor, Obai, was listening to the babbling Qin opera in the mansion. I didn't know when he fell in love with it.
However, news came from the young master "Crazy Xing" that he was messing around with some maids in the mansion.
"Eighteen-eighth bride and eighty-year-old man, with pale hair and red makeup. The mandarin ducks sleep in pairs at night, and a pear tree presses the begonia."
I never thought that my little master would learn from Zhang Xian.
This is a bit interesting. The little master has always been very strict about what he does. When did he become so unruly?
"If the batch of letter eagles I killed were Dafu flying to Yili Prefecture, then according to his character, he would definitely send a second batch or even a third batch. The purpose of killing the first batch was to wake them up.
, don’t make any other wishful thinking, it seems that I have failed..."
Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) fell into deep thought.
The people in the small mountain village were very surprised. These hundreds of sergeants were really different from the people in the city. They wore different clothes and armor, and their marching methods were also different.
He did not harass the villagers and even cooked for himself, unlike the Qiu Ba people in the city who came to the village to steal food and women.
As soon as I got out of my tent in the morning, I saw a gray cloth bag hanging on the curtain of my tent with a black wolf head logo on it.
It caused a panic. Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) came closer, gently took off the cloth bag, and said: "What is supposed to come will always come. I don't know what conditions he promised her, but he actually came out from the depths of the desert..."
Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) gently smelled the cloth bag, as if he smelled the smell of the depths of the desert, and at the same time there was a different kind of fragrance.
Opening the bag was a piece of paper that read "Southern Desert, one hundred miles away."
This is Mingyan's handwriting. The handwriting is neat and neat, but it's similar to a middle school student's calligraphy practice book.
"Although Mingyan is my child, what is the difference between him and his brother? He is my brother in the first place..."
When Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) got the note, he was calmer than ever. This is a habit developed through years of special forces training. The more dangerous and tense the situation, the calmer he becomes.
A carriage creaked and walked slowly south. Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) was sitting in the carriage, eating the dried yak meat brought from Qinghai. He felt that the most beautiful thing in the world was to eat it bit by bit with his hands.
It feels like tearing it apart and throwing it into your mouth, slowly chewing it into paste, and then swallowing it.
The carriage kept moving forward in a leisurely manner, and there was gray-yellow desert along the way.
After walking for two days and one night, Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) finally arrived at a small oasis one evening when the sun was setting.
Staggering off the carriage, facing the red sun, Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) saw a group of desert wolves standing in a line on the other side of the oasis. They all looked at it with straight eyes.
With precious jade (burning small stone).
"What is supposed to come will always come... No wonder my horse stopped... One wolf, two wolves, three wolves... Forget it, forget about counting... Anyway, they will all die in a while
"..." Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) looked like he was mumbling to himself, but in fact his voice was very loud.
At this time, the neatly arranged wolves separated from each other, and a swaying girl in red walked out from the depths of the wolf pack.
"You finally came."
"Come here, aren't you the same?"
"It's different for you to come and for me to come."
"What benefits did he... give you to come out of the depths of the desert?"
"We have to survive, we have to survive... You are right. If we continue like this and the entire race is escaping, then sooner or later we will perish."
"So, you promise him to kill me for him... and then you will get a chance to survive and develop?"
"Maybe he will break the contract, but... I can only take a gamble."
"What if the bet loses?"
"Then the Immortal God will not let us continue to exist... We really don't want to wander in the vast desert anymore. We want our own fertile grassland and fertile land. Is there anything wrong with this?"
"You are not wrong, and he is not wrong... I am not wrong either, neither of us is wrong. What is wrong is time and fate...?"
"Come out all your people. No matter how well your people hide, my children will find out."
Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) scratched his head in embarrassment, "You can even discover this..."
With a wave of his hand, a whistle came from Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi)'s mouth, and more than two hundred fully armed soldiers emerged from the sand more than a hundred meters behind him.
"I'm sorry that you found out. Your wolf pack is very powerful."
"Did they learn their desert lurking skills from you?"
"I only teach them a few superficial things, and they are far behind you. I very much agree with the idea of you and your race leaving the desert, although the indifference and danger between people...are even worse than the indifference and danger of the desert...walking out
In the desert, at least your race still has a chance to continue. You, like me, are from the same place we came from, and we both have a tangible identity. We are both working hard on our own... This is how things are."
"Those who have had a bad fate, and those who have lost their way, look around and see that they are all guests in a foreign land, and we can't go back."
"I know, so I just want to take away my Mingyan."
"Mingyan is in that sand pit, you can go and take him away yourself."
"Do I have to go down in person?"
"..."
"Okay... but if you want to use wolves to keep me here, you may have made the wrong idea. I have never been afraid of wolves, even the most ferocious desert wolves."
"..."
Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) leaned on a cane and walked towards the bottom of the sandpit. When he got off the carriage, Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) saw the sandpit and Ming Yan was lying in the sandpit.
On the sand table, I knew there must be a trap in this sand pit.
However, Mingyan is my brother, and I must come.
Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) walked towards the bottom of the sandpit without looking back, walked to Mingyan, gently touched Mingyan's face, sighed heavily, and said: "Brother, I'm here, I'm here."
I will not abandon you..."
Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) sat next to Mingyan until the moon was at its peak.
A soldier walked up to Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) and reported: "The wolves have left... Why don't you use a gun to keep them behind?"
Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) gently caressed the sand table, reached into the sand and pulled out a wooden board, revealing a small pit underneath, filled with strips of yellow explosives.
"I'm betting that she won't detonate these explosives, and I'm also betting that she trusts me and won't trust him..."
(Who is "him" in Baoyu's mouth? Please see the breakdown in the next round.)