from the sea
This Shao Xuan can't imagine, unless the slave owners are all mermaids, but this seems impossible, living in the desert for so many years, how could it be a marine creature? Even evolution is a process.
After hearing the answer from the blind old slave, Shao Xuan's first reaction was disbelief, and his second reaction was disbelief!
But the other party's face was serious, which made Shao Xuan helpless.
"What do you mean from the sea?" Shao Xuan asked.
The blind old slave shook his head, "I'm not too sure, but I heard from some people before that the slave owners came from there."
Shao Xuan still had doubts about this, and after thinking about it, he asked the old slave for a map of the desert. The map Su Gu showed Shao Xuan was not comprehensive, and Shao Xuan hoped to see a more complete map here. After all, it is one of the three major cities, so it can’t even have a full map, right
The old slave didn't know much about maps. He was blind in his early years, and many of the things he memorized were only memorized after listening to others, but pictures and the like were more difficult.
Although he didn't remember it, the old slave knew the approximate location of the map, walked to the side of the stone shelf, raised his hand to draw a range, "It should be in this area, look for it." He couldn't see it, but he clearly remembered it. Which piece contains which kind of notes.
Shao Xuan rummaged through carefully, and finally found a few animal skins that looked like maps.
"This has been untouched for several years, be careful," said the old slave.
It is indeed old enough. Even if the animal skins have been carefully protected in the early stage, there are usually people who take care of them. However, the quality of the animal skins is not very good, and it is easy to be damaged if neglected.
The map drawn on the animal skin is very simple, and the scale is not good. It only shows the approximate location of the desert cities and some important places, and some of the dark colors on the side should be the sea.
Shao Xuan wrote down all these, and then put the map back.
After flipping through some notes again, Shao Xuan stopped.
The blind old slave held some notes and put them in a sunny place to dry them in the sun to prevent them from being eaten by insects or mildew. Although he could not see it, it was not difficult after doing such a thing for a long time. He could still feel where the sun was. .
"If you have nothing else to do, leave here as soon as possible," said the old slave.
"Well." Shao Xuan didn't plan to stay for a long time. Recently, there have been many things in Xueyuan City, and things will change after a while. Shao Xuan plans to leave later.
"Don't wait until sunset. After sunset, the defense in the palace will be stronger than during the day." Said the blind old slave.
Shao Xuan's expression changed. He really planned to wait for sunset to act. He didn't expect this to happen in the palace of Xueyuan City. Could it be that the King of Xueyuan was often assassinated at night, so he strengthened his defense at night
No wonder the previous man and woman came out to fool around during the day, not at night.
"Okay." Shao Xuan thanked the old slave and watched the old slave carefully move the notes of different materials.
Listening to the tone of the old man's words before, I could tell that he did not have a good opinion of the slave owners, and even worshipped those betrayers in history. But they cherish the notes left by these former slave owners. Thinking of this person's talent for endorsement, if he was in a more advanced peaceful era, he might have been a scholarly talent.
Pity.
"How did your eyes go blind?" After Shao Xuan asked this sentence, he felt that it was rude to ask this question, like exposing a scar.
Seeing that the old slave was silent, Shao Xuan planned to change the subject, but he heard the old slave say calmly: "When I was very young, I became the slave of the King of Xueyuan together with others, and once I took a look at his hand. Note, Wang was in a bad mood at that time and was very angry, and I accepted the punishment."
The old slave still remembers that after the king stabbed him in the eye, he threw him to the stone room and said, "Don't you like to watch it, so just watch it here!"
The blind slave couldn't see the words in the notes, but he begged others to read it to him, and wrote down all the notes he had heard, and recited them every day.
When Shao Xuan heard the words, he sighed again: It's a pity.
Before leaving, Shao Xuan also planned to leave some herbs, not to strengthen his body, but there were still some left to treat trauma.
The old slave refused.
"You need it more," said the old slave.
"You..." Shao Xuan looked at the sick old man. If he continued like this, not to mention the pain caused by the injury, he would not last long.
"There's not much time anyway." The old slave looked openly and waved his hand, "Let's go. By the way, you have to be careful of your nose."
"What is the nose?" Shao Xuan asked.
"It's a desert beast domesticated in the snowfield city. It's not big. It usually hides in the palace. Their sense of smell is very keen. If they don't stare at them, they will rarely be able to escape." The old slave said. .
"After I sneaked into the palace, I never encountered it." Shao Xuan said.
The old slave was not clear about this either. After all, his scope of activities was limited to the stone room where his notebooks were placed, and other things were also heard from others.
"Maybe Biluo stays near the king's palace," said the old slave, "but you better be careful."
"Well, I know, you can rest assured." Shao Xuan thanked again, and then left the stone room.
After Shao Xuan left, the old slave sat there quietly. Although he couldn't see it, he could feel the direction of the window. At this time, he kept staring out the window.
His family has been a slave for generations, and his ancestors also became the king's guards. Until his generation, he was sent here early to guard this small stone room. He remembered an old man who used to read his notes to him and told him before his death: One day, the current system will be replaced by another system.
During this time, he couldn't get out, but he could feel the changes in the palace of Xueyuan City, and could infer a lot of things based on the conversations of other people. He also had an intuition that Xueyuan City was in danger!
What he said to Shao Xuan just now was "not much time", not only referring to himself, but also alluding to Xueyuan City.
While the old slave was contemplating, on the other side, Shao Xuan, who had left the stone room, quietly looked around. There were not many people around. Probably because there were no slave owners nearby, apart from some regular patrolling guards, No one else was seen.
Shao Xuan entered from the main entrance of the palace, and where he left, he planned to run through the back door or other side doors.
The palace is surrounded by tall and thick walls, and there are people guarding it inside and outside.
While sneaking, Shao Xuan suddenly felt a sense of crisis being spied on.
exposed? !
He looked around quickly, and his eyes were fixed in one place.
There was a tree there, and on one branch hung an oval-shaped thing not much bigger than a fist. At this time, the ovals on the branches are spreading, the rolled body is elongated, and the contracted wings are unfolded. The nose, which was rolled into a roll behind the back, was almost as long as the rest of the body, unfolded, elongated, and pointed directly to where Shao Xuan was.
Nose!
Shao Xuan thought of the creatures mentioned by the blind old slave.
"If you don't stare at them, you will rarely be able to escape." This is the old slave's evaluation of Biluo.
The secret passage was bad, and Shao Xuan didn't waste any more time and ran away.
He wanted to kill the nose first, but he had already noticed that there were other similar sights around him, indicating that there were not a few hidden noses nearby, and they were all focusing on him!
Not all the noses in the palace were guarded around the king's bedroom. Some of them found a quieter place to sleep, but they didn't think about it. They met Shao Xuan and recognized that Shao Xuan was not from the city.
beep—
A sharp whistle-like sound came from Nairo's long nose.
This was like a signal, and the other noses around also made sounds one after another, flying towards the direction where Shao Xuan fled.
When the surrounding guards heard the sound, they all gathered at the place where Biluo was, shouting loudly, "Someone invaded!"
However, Shao Xuan's speed was also fast. He already knew where the nearest door was and went straight there.
There are no other slave owners living around here, and several giant beasts raised by the king and the young masters are also raised around here.
At this time, a young master of Xueyuan was watching the slaves help him train the giant beasts. When he heard someone invaded, it seemed that there was only one person who invaded.
"Go! Go catch the intruder!"
The other slaves that followed felt bitter in their hearts, catching the intruder was the guard's business, why would you, a young master, mix it up! But when the master passed, these slaves couldn't stand by and watch, they could only grit their teeth and follow.
Shao Xuan was like a sharp knife, splitting the encirclement in front of him, listening to the movement behind him, he caught a glimpse of a large stone nearly one person tall next to it, with the words "Beast Garden" engraved on it.
Shao Xuan didn't care whether it was a beast garden or a human garden, he picked up the stone that was nearly a person high in both hands, turned around and threw it out!
Because the young master chased after the giant beast, some guards did not dare to get too close, for fear of being accidentally injured by the giant beast. The rampant beast roared, as if it was going to flatten everything, but before it squeaked for a long time, a stone was thrown in the face, and the nose was smashed abruptly. , when something tripped under his feet, his two front legs knelt down heavily, and his body continued to rush forward, hitting a row of houses.
Boom boom boom!
The house here is not the reinforced walls on the Colosseum. Under the violent collision of this giant beast, it collapsed in an instant.
The other slaves who saw this scene were full of disbelief. They actually… actually held such a big stone and threw it as a ball!
Although there are many powerful people among the slaves, it is not so exaggerated. Compared with the person who smashed the giant beast with a stone just now, it is still a little worse.
The young slave owner who fell from the giant beast didn't care about his injuries and shouted, "Tie that man to me, I want him to be my slave!"
There were a lot of arrows shot around and guards surrounding him, but Shao Xuan's fast speed, coupled with the chaos just made, did not wait for the guards from other places to come, and he was already close to the back door of the palace.