"Brother Xiangtian, when can we get out of this desert?" Yan Qingwu complained to Long Xiangtian.
After Long Xiangtian learned the "God-killing Finger", he became more confident in his own strength and planned to leave home to hone his skills, but he still said goodbye to his father before that. The father was not surprised at all, after all, he had expected his son to leave.
However, what Long Xiangtian did not expect was that Yan Qingwu also wanted to go with him. Originally, Long Zhan and Long Xiangtian disagreed, but they could not resist Yan Qingwu's pleading, so they had to take Yan Qingwu with them.
"It was you who insisted on coming here, and you even sat in a carriage. What is there to complain about?" Long Xiangtian had originally planned to cross the desert to Tianming City, the capital of the Tenglong Empire, by himself, but he had to take Yan Qingwu with him in the end. Long Zhan felt sorry for his daughter, so he arranged for the two of them to have the identities of Long family guards, and they set off with a delivery convoy.
Although the delivery team didn't have much to deliver, it was quite valuable, so they paid the Long family a sum of money to ask them to send people for protection. After all, the Long family's name was still useful near Yueyang Mountain. Unexpectedly, the Long family only sent two underage children. The owner of the team also saw that the Long family just wanted to take a ride, but he didn't dare to complain and had to set off in a hurry.
Yan Qingwu felt a little embarrassed when she heard Long Xiangtian directly point out her little willfulness, but she still said stubbornly: "I won't tell Brother Xiangtian. I'm going to go play with Zi'er."
Long Xiangtian was helpless when he heard Yan Qingwu's words, so he had to let Yan Qingwu go and play with Zi'er, whom she mentioned.
The Zi'er that Yan Qingwu mentioned was Lu Zi'er. She was not a young lady, but rather the twelve or thirteen-year-old granddaughter of the old coachman.
Normally the caravan shouldn't have taken such a young girl on the road, but the old man was an accident. The girl's parents died in the war many years ago, so she had to live a hard life with the old man. The people in the caravan felt sorry for them, and since Zi'er was really well-behaved, they turned a blind eye.
As soon as Yan Qingwu came to the team, she was very fond of this lively and lovely girl. The girl seldom interacted with other girls in the team, let alone such a beautiful older sister, so the two girls quickly became familiar with each other.
Long Xiangtian felt much more relaxed watching the two little girls laughing and giggling. He sat in the carriage and started practicing "The Mysterious Qi of Killing the Sky", not missing any opportunity to practice.
After a while, Long Xiangtian woke up from his training state and looked out the window. It was already dark and the convoy had stopped, so he planned to take a rest. Long Xiangtian looked around, trying to find Yan Qingwu's location, and was relieved to see Yan Qingwu sitting by the campfire and resting.
Long Xiangtian also knew that although the desert was hot during the day, it would be very cold at night. Long Xiangtian was afraid that Yan Qingwu would catch a cold accidentally because she was busy playing with Lu Ziruo, so he got out of the car with one of his coats and planned to let Yan Qingwu put it on.
"Brother Xiangtian, I have good news for you."
Before Long Xiangtian walked over, he saw Yan Qingwu jumping and running towards him, wanting to tell him something excitedly, as if she had discovered a treasure.
"What good news? Did you find a treasure?" Long Xiangtian was also confused by Yan Qingwu's behavior.
"What treasure? Brother Xiangtian, you must have been confused during your practice. It was Zi'er who told me that there is an oasis nearby."
"Oasis?" Although Long Xiangtian was a little surprised, he was not too excited. After all, with his cultivation and resilience, not drinking water for a long time was not a big deal. However, Yan Qingwu did not like this feeling very much. After all, water is one of the most needed energy sources for the human body.
"Also, I just asked the captain for permission for the two of us to go get some water, and the captain agreed."
Long Xiangtian immediately figured out Yan Qingwu's little thoughts. He guessed that Yan Qingwu had finally found a source of pure water and wanted to wash up. After all, girls still love beauty. In the past few days, Yan Qingwu had been using drinking water to wash up, but that little water was not enough.
"Okay, okay, I'll go with you." Long Xiangtian was also helpless.
Although the oasis was not too far from the convoy, it was not easy to reach. In addition, Yan Qingwu spent a lot of time washing up, so by the time they arrived near the convoy, it was completely dark.
However, when approaching the location of the convoy, Long Xiangtian discovered something strange. There were a lot of horse hoof sounds coming from the direction of the convoy, and so many horse hoof sounds could not have come from the convoy. Also, there were only a few bonfires in the convoy, but now the flames were so strong that they were shooting up into the sky. A sense of foreboding arose in Long Xiangtian's heart.
After exchanging a glance with Yan Qingwu, he discovered that there was a hint of doubt in the other person's eyes, indicating that Yan Qingwu had also discovered that something was not normal.
Long Xiangtian and Yan Qingwu restrained their breath and slowly sneaked near the convoy, where they discovered an astonishing scene.
The convoy was now like hell on earth, with corpses everywhere and blood everywhere. A group of scantily clad men were riding horses, each holding a bloody knife in their hands. They looked ferocious but were laughing up to the sky, which made people extremely hateful. They looked like a group of vicious horse thieves.
Most of the people in the convoy had turned into minced meat, dead as hell. Only a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people and ordinary people who had no power to resist were left, tied up like pigs and shivering in the cargo trucks. Lu Ziru, whom Yan Qingwu loved very much, was among them, but she was crying like a tearful person in her grandfather's arms.
This scene directly angered Long Xiangtian and the others. Yan Qingwu's eyes were red and she wanted to rush up and kill all the bandits. But Long Xiangtian was calm enough and stopped Yan Qingwu. After all, the two of them could not beat so many bandits, especially the man at the front was a master of Guanli Realm. Long Xiangtian did not dare to let Yan Qingwu take risks.
"Brother Xiangtian, why are you stopping me? I want to save Zi'er." Yan Qingwu was also overwhelmed. She was very puzzled by Long Xiangtian's action of stopping her, and asked with red eyes.
"Can you do it?" Long Xiangtian didn't want to attack Yan Qingwu, but he urgently needed Yan Qingwu to calm down instead of going up to die.
These few short words made Yan Qingwu suddenly realize the truth, but her eyes were filled with reluctance.
"But, but I can't wait and just watch Zi'er being captured by the horse thieves."
"I know, I can't either, but since the bandits have captured Zi'er, they will definitely not kill Zi'er and the others casually. They will definitely return to their base first. If we just follow them, there will always be a chance."
Long Xiangtian was calmer and quickly analyzed the key to the matter and made a reasonable choice. Yan Qingwu also knew that she was too impulsive. After calming down, Yan Qingwu knew that Long Xiangtian's analysis was correct, so she nodded with red eyes and secretly made up her mind to catch these horse thieves in one fell swoop.