After being kicked out of the kitchen, Xue Hua followed Annie to the caravan, where Kane was standing there, holding a wooden stick and waiting for them.
"Are you okay? Mr. Kane." Xue Hua asked.
"Varif asked me to inform you that the departure time has been changed to this evening." Kane came over with a solemn expression on his face.
"What happened? Didn't we agree to leave tomorrow morning?" Xue Hua had a puzzled look on his face.
Caravans generally do not change their operation time easily, especially at this last supply station.
They need to make sure that everyone is ready with the supplies needed to cross the desert to avoid running out of supplies halfway through.
When traveling in the desert, this kind of problem can be fatal.
"According to Warev, the path explorers they sent reported a new situation. A sudden large sandstorm is moving from the southern coastline towards the center of the desert. He said that if he cannot get ahead of the sandstorm through the 'Wandering Valley',
As for the 'Mysterious Sand Dunes', we can only wait in the pass until the sandstorm passes..."
"I see, then we need to speed up preparations..." Xue Hua frowned and nodded.
Generally, large caravans, especially caravans whose trading routes need to pass through some dangerous areas, have a kind of professional pathfinder called "path explorer".
This kind of person is like a pilot on a ship. He must be a very experienced person who has traveled through dangerous situations, and the person in charge can only be a civilian.
Because professionals and mercenaries have completely different assessments of dangerous situations than civilians, some situations or environments that are not dangerous to them may be fatal to civilians.
The vast majority of people in the caravan are civilians, and the leader of the caravan needs to be responsible for the vast majority of people.
Therefore, the exploration report of the path explorer cannot be biased in the slightest, and must be realistic and take into account all the difficulties that ordinary people can endure.
Only in this way can the caravan leader have an accurate judgment on the trade route he is about to pass through, so that he can issue wise orders.
You must know that even trade routes that have been traveled for thousands of years are not foolproof. The natural environment is changing every moment, and the conditions on the trade routes are also changing accordingly.
Especially in the desert.
In Warref's caravan, the path explorers are composed of several old sand people with an average age of about fifty. These people have lived in the desert all their lives and have followed various teams to and from the east and west.
, they know the place where the caravan is about to pass, and their judgment is generally very reliable.
So when Xue Hua heard the news, he signaled to Anne and quickly began to classify all the purchased materials, and immediately went to make up for the unpurchased items.
When they started to get busy, other people in the caravan also got the news and began to speed up their preparations. Even other caravans that arrived later started non-stop preparations.
Warev came before lunch and informed them to pack up their belongings after lunch and follow the caravan towards the eastern gate of the pass. They must seize all the time to avoid running into an incoming sandstorm in the desert.
After lunch, the caravan fell into a busy state. The keepers taking care of the beasts began to feed the beasts a lot of water, and even started to water the beasts.
Other professionals, on the other hand, changed their clothes and clothes according to the body shapes of the guys in the caravan.
Among other things, at least the cotton-padded coat and blanket cloak worn in the severe cold environment of the mountains must be replaced, unless you want to be roasted into dried meat by the scorching sun in the desert.
Of course, Xue Hua and others also changed their clothes. Except for the equipment, which must be kept, the other clothes on their bodies were replaced by light white gauze scarves.
The equipment system for professionals and mercenaries is very weird. Professionals and mercenaries still have the same equipment slots as in the game. These equipment slots are used to activate equipment attributes.
Only when you put on certain pieces of equipment and activate them in the equipment slot can the attributes of this piece of equipment take effect.
Just like in the game, only one piece of equipment can be activated at the same time in each equipment slot.
In other words, you can wear a lot of equipment with the same part on your body at the same time, but you can only obtain the attributes of one of the equipment at the same time. The other equipment will only be regarded as ordinary until it is activated.
Clothes and accessories are not only useless, but they are also very easy to damage like ordinary items.
Therefore, few professionals would do this kind of thing. You must know that ordinary clothes do not have the attribute of "durability".
This means that if you pile them all on your body without activating them, these equipment will easily be directly destroyed by various factors in the battle.
By then it will be too late for you to regret it.
Therefore, except for the equipment that is always activated, the other parts of Xue Hua and the two mercenaries are just ordinary clothes. Even some specially made reinforced leather armors have no attribute energy attached to them and can only play a role.
The most basic occlusion effect.
In this case, there is actually not much difference between changing clothes and not changing clothes.
Especially Xue Hua.
The "Twilight Appearance" piece of equipment is a black and gray robe-like cloth armor. This thing covers almost all the other clothes on his body, except for the ugly one. Xue Hua has been covering the blue with a hood.
Quality skull cap...
However, the outfits the two girls were wearing made Xue Hua's eyes light up. The thin white gauze could not cover the girls' delicate skin that was even whiter than the white gauze.
And those two pairs of long legs freed from winter pants...
Ahem...I feel like I don’t have enough nutrition!
Xue Hua coughed twice and forced his eyes away from the two girls who were laughing at him, and turned to look at the eastern gate of the pass that the caravan was about to reach in front of them.
Due to the importance of the Eastern Pass and the significance it represented, Xue Hua simply did not believe that there would be no legendary strongman stationed here, so he did not dare to let the Supervisory King Insect move his sight inside the fortress.
So this was also the first time he saw the majestic and dangerous east wall.
Compared with the west side city wall, the east side city wall is not that tall, nor is it made of thick giant rocks like the west side city wall.
Because the city wall on the east side faces a large desert prone to sandstorms, building the city wall too high has no other benefit besides increasing the wind area, and the wall made of rock is also easily susceptible to weathering and erosion.
But its biggest feature is its thickness. The thickness of the city wall on the east side is about twice that of the city wall on the west side. The width of the city wall can even allow three large trucks to drive side by side.
Even the guard barracks on the east side of the city wall was built on the top of the city wall. Rogge and the desert guards guarding the city wall would not come down easily.
When the caravan approached the city gate below the city wall, a long-lost ray of sunlight shone through the dark clouds at the top of the city wall. The golden rays of light shone on the ground through the clouds that had begun to thin, like pieces of broken pieces.
The gold ingots were scattered into the world.
"Is this...sunshine?" The two Rogge sisters, who had never seen this scene before, jumped off the caravan and gathered around a larger light spot with strong curiosity and a little excitement on their faces.
"So beautiful..." Sister Anne looked at the shining golden light with blurred eyes. From childhood to adulthood, they only had a vague understanding of what sunshine was in books or songs.
To say that I saw it with my own eyes, this was really the first time.
"Well...it's so warm..." My sister Funia boldly put a hand into the light spot. Suddenly, a warm feeling came from the back of her hand, and the little girl's face showed an incredible look.
with an expression on his face and a dreamy murmur coming from his mouth.
Seeing the performance of the two girls, Xue Hua and Kane looked at each other with some pity in their expressions.
"Kanduras has not seen sunlight for hundreds of years... Some children don't even know what sunlight looks like from birth to death..." Kane shook his head.
There was deep pain hidden in the calm tone.
"I will fix this...and make sure those who caused this pay a high price."
Xue Hua looked at the two girls chasing the light spots happily, his eyes slowly narrowed, and his words were filled with unprecedented determination.
