After Kant returned to Dherim, he asked Bundak to come to see him without delay.
Until the evening of that day, the two finally met.
Bandak stepped into the hall, saluted Kant and asked, "Lord Kant, welcome back to Dherim."
"I saw the letter you sent me, and I returned immediately. What's the matter, has anything happened recently?" Kant nodded, and asked after beckoning Bundak to sit down.
Bundak frowned immediately when he heard Kant's question, and a bitter look appeared on his rough face.
"The workers we sent to collect salt in the saline-alkali land were attacked. Seven or eight workers have died since the first incident." Bandak said in a heavy tone.
With an attack of this scale in the country, panic has run rampant in Dherim.
He was also overwhelmed by this matter.
"Huh?" Kant was shocked in his heart. As a new force that is constantly expanding, Dherim was detonated within the country: "Have you found any results from your investigation? Is it a personal force, or is it "
Bandak replied: "According to the cause of death of the discovered workers, it should be the work of the undead lurking in the border desert."
When Kant heard this, his face became more serious than before.
"you sure?"
In Kant's impression, although the undead have relatively high attack power. But they themselves have little self-awareness.
Now he would suddenly choose to attack Dherim.
This does raise doubts.
"Well, based on my experience in fighting the undead, the injuries on the workers were indeed caused by the undead's attack routes. The test results of the medical soldiers were also the same as what I thought." Bundak replied.
In fact, he has firmly determined that this attack was planned by the undead.
"When was the last attack?" Kant asked after pondering for a moment.
"Early morning," Bundak said.
"Well. Then tonight you take a team of soldiers to the sand dunes near the saline-alkali land to ambush. Find out who is doing the tricks." Kant ordered.
"Take orders," Bundak replied, and he had wanted to do this before. It's just that Kant hasn't returned to the main city yet, and the transfer of troops requires the consent of the lord.
"Go and pick someone from the elite army. You have seen undead soldiers on the battlefield before, and the risk factor for this operation is quite high." Kant confessed.
Bandak nodded, bid farewell and withdrew.
The sky outside the house was slightly gloomy, and the sun was completely covered by dark clouds.
A well-dressed 30-man army set off from the main city and walked to the outskirts where the saline-alkali land was located.
Bandak has been here many times before, so the route is familiar.
When he was about to reach the destination, Bandak ordered the whole team to immediately seek cover and ambush.
And when the soldiers in armor were relying on the sand dunes to hide in hiding, he led a few soldiers dressed as workers and continued to walk forward frankly.
It is summer now, and a layer of white salt frost has formed on the bark of the wood salt tree in the saline-alkali land.
Putting on his salt picker's gear, Bandak took out a knife and scraped off the salt from the trees layer by layer and stored it in small buckets.
Others also imitated Bundak's movements and were busy working together in the saline-alkali ground.
Occasionally whisper to each other.
Until the moon climbed high into the night sky, there was not a trace of vision around.
A subordinate inadvertently walked up to Bandak and said, "Commander, have those guys already withdrawn? They haven't shown up for so long."
"It's still early, don't slack off. Hurry up and get to work." Bandak glanced around and said in a low voice.
The soldier went to another tree without saying a word, and continued to pick salt.
"I don't know how long I'll be squatting. I'm in the wilderness. I was called out of the army today without dinner." A soldier complained to the people around him.
"It seems that you are used to being lazy, and you have never been out of the main city. Fighting outside is much harder than this." The soldier who heard this complained and responded.
"Anyway, I'm the shadow of the undead now, and I'm going to use up all my strength to collect salt."
The relationship between the two seems to be quite close, you chatted with each other.
"Stop talking nonsense. When you're hungry, go pick a few dates from the sandy date tree over there to eat. I heard that many workers usually eat this. It can temporarily fill their stomachs."
The soldier who spoke first was overjoyed: "Thank you Lord!!"
"You should thank me." Another soldier said helplessly.
But the other party didn't finish listening to what he said, so he went to the west of the jujube grove to pick dates.
After a while, the soldiers who stayed where they were working turned around and looked at the woods to the west. I wondered in my heart: "How much does this kid want to pick? Why hasn't he come back?"
Thinking about it in my heart, I often glanced in that direction a few times.
After a while, he saw a familiar figure running out of the jujube forest.
"Oh my god!!!" A scream startled everyone.
Bandak ran quickly to where the sound came from.
"What's wrong?" Bundak asked.
Pointing to the west, the soldier said with a pale face, "That's the undead."
Bandak's gaze also looked over there.
I saw groups of undead running wildly in the desert chasing a soldier disguised as a worker.
"The target appears! Prepare to fight!" Bandak commanded.
The sound spread outside the saline-alkali land, and the Swadian soldiers hiding behind the sand dunes also adjusted their equipment one after another.
The muscles of the whole body were tense and entered the state of fighting.
As soon as the undead entered their field of vision, they immediately attacked and killed them.
Bundak picked up his sword and mounted his horse.
He galloped to the front of the group of undead and attracted their attention.
There are not many undead, and their physique is almost the same as that of ordinary undead warriors. It does not appear to be equipped with any weapons. But now is the most active time of the day for them.
The amazing jumping and biting abilities alone are enough to crush the human arms.
There are still three hours before dawn. The most important thing is to maintain your physical strength within these three hours and not let these undead escape easily.
"Get on the horse!!" Bandak stretched out his hand to rescue, and said to the soldiers who were running desperately.
The soldier looked at him tremblingly, grasped Bandak's right hand, and jumped onto the horse.
"Tighten it!!"
The undead behind them were still chasing them closely.
Bandak sped up his speed and fled towards the desert.
The soldiers who had been ambushing in the saline-alkali ground had already taken off their workers' coats, revealing their shining armor. Holding the newly remodeled shield, he walked silently outside the saline-alkali land and joined his companions hidden behind the dunes.
(end of this chapter)