In the Kafijaro Desert, countless people are buried by the yellow sand every year. It is a forbidden zone for life. Even if a few more people disappear in a year, no one will know.
It was the slave hunters' fault that caused her and her brother to be stranded in a foreign land. After Yang Yu played with them, Iyas did not hold back at all and shot them through the heart mercilessly and buried them in the yellow sand.
No words were spoken that night.
The next day, Yang Yu and Qing Shi waved to each other and confirmed that no one else wanted to use them as a bus. After meeting up with Lotkar outside the town, they officially headed towards Wansheng Kingdom.
In the endless yellow sand, Lothkar, who usually walked very fast, also slowed down. In addition, they had to stop moving in the hot noon. It would take Yang Yu and his team at least a week to cross the vast desert and reach the country of Wansheng.
As the temperature rose, Iyas pulled at the scarf wrapped around her neck, trying to fan air into her neck to cool off. However, the wind in the desert was also hot, and blowing the wind into her clothes would only make her feel the heat that was unbearable for ordinary people.
After making sure they were far enough away from the town, Qingshi reminded Iyas that if she felt hot, she could take off her stuffy clothes and there was no need to worry about her demi-human identity being exposed.
When conquering the Hall of Courage, Iyas never took off the scarf and headscarf around her neck, and always concealed her identity as an elf from Qingshi.
When Qingshi revealed that she was a demihuman, Iyas was surprised.
Qingshi explained with a wry smile that the Asians often seek out desert guides, hoping that the desert guides can take them across the desert.
Qingshi's father Jiaosha had received many demi-humans, but he did so secretly and rarely told other people about it.
The slave trade has existed since ancient times, and many demihumans would cross the desert to Setis in search of their captured compatriots.
When the desert guide arrives in the country of Wansheng, these subhumans will often find the desert guide and offer generous rewards, hoping that the desert guide can lead them through the desert.
The demihumans who successfully rescued their compatriots and wanted to return to their own country would also choose to look for desert guides.
In order to avoid being discovered of their true identities, these sub-humans often dress themselves up, quietly look for desert guides under the cover of night, and then quietly leave under the cover of night.
When Qingshi was a child, he was often woken up by these sub-humans.
At first, Qingshi felt that these people who wrapped their bodies tightly were very scary, but since he followed his father deeper into the desert with them, Qingshi realized that these sub-humans were basically no different from humans except that they looked a little different from humans.
There are good people and bad people in the world of sub-humans. The young Qingshi knows that those who are willing to risk their own lives to search for their lost compatriots are definitely not bad guys.
Unfortunately, as the war between the Wansheng Kingdom and the Rose Empire gradually intensified, the town where Qingshi was located became a stronghold frequented by slave hunters, and few demi-humans went there to look for desert guides.
But on the contrary, whenever the desert guide arrived in the country of Wansheng, there would always be a large number of demihumans coming to them, either by coercion or by begging, asking the desert guide to take them across the desert to Setis.
Therefore, Qingshi was not surprised by the appearance of sub-humans.
If there are sub-humans in the team, the desert guide will also provide special services, keep a distance from other people who attempt to cross the desert, and avoid too much contact with other human teams.
After getting Yang Yu's permission, Iyas slowly took off her scarf and headscarf, revealing her identity as an elf and revealing her beautiful face.
When Qingshi saw her, he couldn't help but look at her a few more times, then he smiled innocently and looked away embarrassedly.
It took a day or two for Qingshi to adapt and be able to communicate normally with Iyas.
It was time for a lunch break again. As usual, Yang Yu took out the cooling props and let the team rest on the spot.
Unknowingly, Yang Yu and his companions were getting closer and closer to the center of the Kafizzaro Desert.
The most common scene in the desert is the sand dunes that are all the same. Once they lose their way, Yang Yu and his team will most likely have to return along the original route, which would be a wasted trip.
On the way, they occasionally saw a few mirages, but Qingshi was always able to keenly judge that they were just mirages, saving Yang Yu and his friends the energy to go and check them out.
There are also oases in the Kafizzaro Desert, and many desert guides plan their routes based on them.
However, the appearance of an oasis is often accompanied by ferocious monsters. Since Yang Yu and his team were well prepared and did not need to replenish resources or make large-scale adjustments along the way, Qingshi adjusted his route, avoiding those oases and heading to the Kingdom of Wansheng via the shortest route.
Outside the tent, the scorching sun distorted the air, and the golden yellow sand was as hot as a hot pan. Throwing an egg into it would immediately turn it into an fried egg.
Yang Yu and his friends sat in the tent. The melted ice took away most of the heat in the tent. Even Lotkar, who was covered with hair, felt the coolness and could lie down and rest with peace of mind.
Bai Jin followed Qingshi's method and continued to practice to improve her magic perception ability.
He Meng, Iyas and Huck leaned against the ice. Iyas tried to use the knowledge she learned from the book and the milk, eggs and sugar she asked from Yang Yu to make soft and sticky ice cream, but she kept failing and froze the mixture into ice.
Yang Yu sat next to Qingshi and learned about the war between the Rose Empire and the Wansheng Empire.
Qingshi didn't know much information, but he still did his best to tell Yang Yu everything he knew.
The war between the Rose Empire and the Wansheng Kingdom lasted for a full eight years.
The cause of the war is also ridiculous.
The country of Rose Empire is also very strange. They have a habit of building statues of ancestors on the border. They believe that as long as the statues of their ancestors stand on the border, they can protect the prosperity of their empire from generation to generation.
Once the boundary is drawn, new sculptures will be erected at regular intervals along the border.
And because the sculptures were of the ancestors of the empire, they attached great importance to the sculptures themselves, and even wrote into the law that no one should be allowed to make any sculptures that would damage the sculptures erected by the empire.
Anyone who dares to defile or damage the imperial statues will be regarded as smearing the glory of the empire.
The fuse of the war occurred in Michelosten, a city with close exchanges between the two countries and a statue of the empire.
It was a commercial city opened by the Rose Empire to the Wansheng Kingdom for commodity trading. It had been a very prosperous commercial city since ancient times, where demihumans and humans could live in peace.
Until one day, the statues erected by the empire collapsed without warning.
There were children playing and fighting under the sculpture that day. A fox-beast swordsman who was passing by stepped forward, cut off the fallen sculpture with his sword, and saved the children.
(End of this chapter)