What you see is a sea of sand. The sand dunes formed by the strong wind stretched far into the distance. When looking up, there was no vegetation. The exposed rocks of different sizes formed various strange shapes under the erosion of wind and sand.
Shao Xuan looked at the rock with a big head and a thin neck like an ET alien above his head, and he felt that this rock would not be able to withstand breaking and collapsing.
After a half-day trek, the team rested here, just to use these rocks to block the hot sun.
At this time, if you hit an egg on the ground, it will be cooked immediately.
"Where did the man from the Mang tribe say we are going?" Tuo asked.
"The City of Fallen Leaves." Shao Xuan said, "It is the territory of the slave owners."
Two days after entering the desert, Spring Ye told Shao Xuan and the others where the destination of the trip was. Shao Xuan asked many times before and could not get an answer. He only got the sentence "I'll know when the time comes", and on the way over, Shao Xuan and the three could clearly feel that others were rejecting them. It seemed that this time they were just taking them for a walk. The cutscenes were not arranged into the plan.
Especially the people of the Tianshan tribe, not only guarding against Shao Xuan and the three, but also with obvious hostility. They often pointed arrows at Shao Xuan and the three, and the two sides almost fought several times.
People from other tribes will have their elders inform them of relevant information. Only the three people from Yanjiao, no one will tell them much. Even Qu Ce and others who usually talk to the three of them more often hesitate to say anything. , they dare not talk nonsense.
Now, I was finally told that I was going to a place called "Leaping Leaf City" that belonged to a certain slave owner. And people who had been keeping their mouths tightly shut before can now reveal more and speak more casually.
Some people in the team looked aloof when facing the three of Yanjiao, probably like the feeling of urban intellectuals looking at the country turtles.
The concept of "city" is quite unfamiliar to the people of Yanjiao. From what they know, they only know the concept of tribe. As for "city", it is vague. are all confused.
"The 'city', I really want to see which is bigger compared to the tribe. By the way, Ah Xuan, they said, who is the biggest in the 'city'? The 'leader'?" Lei asked.
"No, I heard that it is the 'Lord'." Tuo said.
"'Master' is called that by slaves, others are not." Ray corrected.
"It's a 'king'. In the city, the highest ruler calls himself a 'king'," Shao Xuan said.
From what Shao Xuan has learned, there are multiple slave owners in this desert, with their subordinates entrenched everywhere. The place where each slave owner is located is called a "city", not a well-known tribal person. "tribe".
It stands to reason that it is impossible for slave owners and tribes to coexist peacefully, but there are always a few special places.
Fallen leaves city is the most special one among the desert cities.
In the past, the "king" of Fallen Leaf City was also a slave owner who hated the tribesmen very much. From generation to generation, the master of the city of leaves is changing, and the style of the city is also changing.
The biggest change happened twenty years ago.
Because of his lustful nature, the former Fallen Leaf King robbed many beautiful female slaves, and gave birth to a bunch of sons and daughters.
Originally, under normal circumstances, slave owners can only inherit the powerful abilities of their parents if they have offspring with slave owners. Because of this, many slave owners do not take the offspring born by slaves seriously, and throw them directly into them. The slaves were raised as slaves, until twenty years ago, there was a strong counterattack.
The father who counterattacked was a slave owner, and his mother was just a low-level slave with no ability, but he was such a person who fully inherited his father's ability, and was gifted with extraordinary talents, even stronger than his father when he became an adult. Later, the counter-attacker not only slaughtered his slave-owner father, but also the slave-owner queen, along with the half-brother who was about to inherit the throne.
The counter-attacker whose jaws were so shocked was the current supreme ruler of Ye Ye City, the largest slave owner in Ye Ye City, and became the King of Ye Ye.
When they heard this, Lei and Tuo were completely puzzled. Probably these did not conform to their three views. In the Yanjiao tribe, even if it was a competition, they could not fight in such a bad form, let alone blood. My brother, but after all, that is someone else's family business. Besides, their leader didn't find so many descendants in their lives, Wu Ke was watching.
"The Fallen Leaf King should be the best slave owner to the tribesmen, right? Otherwise, it is impossible for the tribesmen to enter the city." Tuo said.
"Then we have to go into the city and have a look." Shao Xuan said. He didn't think that the Fallen Leaf King who chopped down his father and his brothers and sisters would treat the tribesmen differently. Most likely, he used the tribesmen to compete with other slave owners. After all, the price of a counterattack that shocked countless jaws must be quite high.
"Let's go, let's go to Fallen Leaf City!" Lei said, looking at the people who got up over there.
After the team set off again, it took another two days. Sometimes they can't find a suitable place to rest and just go directly to the desert. I also encountered some desert beasts that came out at night. Four people were lost in the team, dragged into the sand, and could never be found again.
On the fifth day into the desert, the team faced the sun and continued to move forward. Compared to the long-distance teams that Shao Xuan had seen, this team was the most abusive.
Hot and dry air waves swept across the boundless desert.
The wind is blowing, the wind is whirling.
Sand is blown into dunes.
Not far away on the tall hills like mountains, some sand grains were blown up and blown across the ridge.
The main body of such tall dunes is unknown for how many years, possibly hundreds, thousands, or even longer.
"Look, there's someone over there!" It wasn't just someone shouting.
Looking sideways, there is a tall hill in the distance. On the ridge, there is a group of people walking on it with camels.
"Who is that? The slave of which city?"
"I can't see clearly, I don't know which city it is, but looking at the direction they are walking, it should also be Fallen Leaf City, right?" someone said.
"Don't worry, keep going, we're almost there," said an older man.
When encountering slaves, as long as those slaves do not take the initiative to find trouble, the people who travel far will not take action at will. They have to save their physical strength to travel, and do not want to spend more energy on dealing with those slaves.
As he continued to move forward, Shao Xuan found that the group of people was walking in the same direction as theirs, and the camel he was leading became excited.
"Is this seeing the same kind?" Shao Xuan pulled the excited camel, preventing it from rushing forward.
There seemed to be some other smell in the air, wafting by the wind. The camel next to him was even more excited, and seemed to want to spread his hooves and run over. Not in the direction of the team, but directly forward.
"Falling leaves city arrived?" Lei also smelled other breaths in the air. Because of frequent hunting, it is very sensitive to changes in surrounding odors.
In addition to the change in smell, there are some sounds.
After turning over a hill again, Shao Xuan saw the destination of their trip - Leaf City.
By this time, the sun had already slanted down toward the horizon.
The orange sunset shone on the vast desert, and looking ahead, there were large swathes of leaves of the same color as the setting sun.
Orange trees, orange sunsets, and a desert city stained by the sunset.
It is said that the tree with the most leaves in the city is the sunset tree, because the color of the leaves is similar to the sunset, and it never changes color throughout the year, so it was named. Even the symbol of the Fallen City is the Fallen Tree.
It is said that deciduous trees live for a thousand years without dying, die for a thousand years without falling, and fall for a thousand years without immortality. I've heard it, but I don't know what the truth is. However, looking around, there are indeed large swathes of sunset trees in the Fallen Leaf City. Seeing these trees makes people feel cool. After walking in the desert for so many days, except for the sand that is the stone, it is rare to see so many plants now, and my mood is much better.
In addition to those sunset trees, there are some unknown grasses around the city. Although there are not many, they do exist. No wonder the camels next to them are so excited. This is because they sense the food.
Standing on the sand dunes and looking over to Fallen Leaves City, in addition to the trees with the same color as the sunset, there is also a tall building.
Below the building is a huge stone block built like a pyramid, and above it is a house.
"The highest place in Fallen Leaves City is where the king lives," said an elder from the Hui tribe.