The traces left by the march of the orcs in ancient Greece are still there. The four of them followed the traces on the ground all the way to the west, and arrived at the junction of the Gobi and the desert around midnight.
You can occasionally see some green plants and small animals in the Gobi, but there is nothing in the desert except endless sand.
When they arrived here, the traces of the orcs' march disappeared, and the four of them landed on the ground to drink water and rest.
After a short rest, the four of them hit the road again. The desert is a restricted area of life for ordinary people, but it is nothing to practitioners who can fly across the sky. The four of them can fly very high to avoid the heat of the desert. He also carried a Qiankun bag with him, which contained enough food and drinking water.
"Wu, this is still the edge of the desert." Ryan said. After entering the desert, Wu Dongfang did not move in a straight line. He would veer left or right from time to time, which showed that he was looking for enemies.
"If they are really hidden in this area, they shouldn't be deep in the desert." Wu Dongfang shook his head.
Ryan didn't know why Wu Dongfang made such a judgment, but he didn't ask any more questions and followed Wu Dongfang's zigzag search.
At noon, Wu Dongfang gathered his spiritual energy and landed on the ground, forcing out a large black scorpion from the gravel on the shady side of a sand dune. Although this scorpion was not small, it was not the same species as the scorpion of Commander Selekt. This is an indigenous scorpion.
"Wu, I think we should search the central area of the desert." Ryan made a suggestion. It is noon now. If they can't find their opponent before dark, the situation will be very unfavorable for them.
"Looking in the center of the desert, it is possible to find the oases and water sources where they once settled, but their base camp will not be located there." Wu Dongfang shook his head.
"Why do you say that?" Buck asked.
"This desert is endless. If the orc army wants to cross this desert, it must choose several oases as a stopping point on the way. The frogs led by Hequet cannot tolerate drought or high temperature, so they settle in the last place. The spot must be chosen where these frogs can leave the desert and enter the Gobi overnight." Wu Dongfang explained.
Buck suddenly realized, and Ryan and Yingjila both nodded. The differences between the East and the West are not only reflected in cultural customs, but also in people's ways of thinking. Wu Dongfang's perspective on thinking is strange to them, but it is very accurate. .
"The last place to stay should be their base camp." Wu Dongfang jumped into the air, climbed as high as he could, looked around from high altitude, then lowered his height to meet the three of them, and headed north to a suspected location where there were some Greenery should be an oasis with water.
Water is particularly precious in the desert. The few animals in the desert will thrive based on water sources. There are mammals such as desert foxes and camels around the water sources, as well as some snakes and arthropods.
By observing these animals, Wu Dongfang came to the conclusion that they had not been attacked or violated before, were not very vigilant, and that there were no injured animals among them. There are no unusual footprints around the water source, which means that the other party's hiding place is not in this area.
After confirming that the enemy was not in this area, the four of them set off on the road again and searched north. Since they could observe and search from a high position, the search speed was very fast, but there were no signs of abnormality in the oases and water sources they encountered along the way.
The way ancient Babylon calculated time was similar to the modern hour system. At around two o'clock in the afternoon, the four people turned back south and returned to the area where the traces of the orcs' march disappeared.
"Are they not here?" Injira took out the water bag and distributed it to Buck and Ryan.
Wu Dongfang shook his head, "They travel long distances. Even if they are not here now, there must be their foothold in this area."
"But we have searched the surrounding oases and pools." Yingjira said. Before the four people searched north, a large area in the south had also been searched.
Wu Dongfang did not answer. He had seen the frogs led by Haiquet before and knew their moving speed. Those frogs could not move more than a thousand miles in one night. This was still on hard soil and in the desert. When jumping, the speed will be greatly affected. It would be good to be able to jump five hundred miles.
The reason why these frogs were chosen as reference objects is because scorpions, poisonous snakes and dung beetles are resistant to drought and hunger. They can also move during the day, while the remaining alien species move very fast. Using them as reference objects requires expanding the search radius. .
"They may have gone another way," Buck said.
"It's unlikely. Any large-scale long-distance attack will have a temporary base camp." Wu Dongfang shook his head and said. He was a soldier and was familiar with tactics and strategies. Large-scale cross-border operations would definitely have a relatively stable temporary base camp. It can provide supplies and assistance to the combat troops during the war, and can also cover the evacuation of the combat troops if they are defeated. In modern warfare, this kind of temporary base camp is usually served by an aircraft carrier or some islands closer to the war zone.
At this moment, Wu Dongfang suddenly noticed that his positioning aura appeared somewhere in the east. He concentrated on sensing and found that the place where the positioning aura appeared was the valley where Xun Shuang was.
At this time, there were no telephones or telegraphs, and there was no way to convey information clearly and accurately. The parties needed to judge and confirm based on the objective situation. There was only one positioning aura, which meant that Xin Tong rushed to the place, not Xun Shuang who discovered the enemy. Xun Shuang If an enemy is discovered, multiple positioning spirit beads will be crushed.
Wu Dongfang was not in a hurry to tell Xin Tong their current location. First, Xin Tong must be very tired from the long-distance attack. Second, the four of them would not stay here for a long time, and they would be searched next.
The sensing breath interrupted his previous thoughts, Wu Dongfang calmed down and continued. The first thing he thought of was whether the ancient Egyptians would have similar special transportation tools, but this idea passed in a flash and was quickly rejected by him. If the ancient Egyptians really had special transportation tools, they could directly send the orc army to the hinterland of Babylon, without the need to advance from the periphery inland.
After eliminating the first possibility, only the second possibility is left, which is that there must be an enemy camp within a radius of 500 miles. But the problem is that the range they searched previously exceeded 500 miles, and all the people in this area I visited all the oases and water sources, but found nothing unusual.
At this point, the deliberation has reached a dead end.
People become very irritable in high-temperature environments and find it difficult to calm down. Wu Dongfang sat down, took a piece of tile and drew the general location of oases and water sources within a radius of five hundred miles on the ground, staring at this. Several stores considered it.
Yingjila came over and handed a piece of bread to Wu Dongfang, "Wu, have something to eat."
"No, thank you." Wu Dongfang waved his hand.
Yingjira squatted down and looked at the shapes on the sand. "If they are really in this area, they must need water."
Wu Dongfang did not answer, and after searching to no avail, Yingjila believed that there was no camp of the ancient Egyptian army in this area. What she just said actually meant the same. They had visited all the water sources within the search range. No trace of the enemy taking water was found near the water source, which means that the enemy is not here.
"If they are really not here, the subsequent war will be very disadvantageous for us. We are not sure when, where and how they will attack us." Wu Dongfang sighed and threw away the tiles in his hands. He took out the water jar from the Qiankun bag.
"They suffered heavy losses, so it is not impossible to retreat." Ingira said.
Wu Dongfang nodded, "It is also possible, but whether they will withdraw their troops depends on how much of the Orc Legion accounts for their total strength. If it accounts for more than half, then they have the possibility of withdrawing their troops. If all the Orc Legions The annihilation of the army did not hurt their bones. Not only will they not withdraw their troops, they will also take crazy revenge."
"Twelve orcs..."
Wu Dongfang raised his hand and interrupted Yingjila's words, "Don't look at the quantity. The quantity is not directly related to the entity."
Injira nodded in agreement and delivered the piece of bread again.
Wu Dongfang waved his hand again, then grabbed the water jar and raised his head to drink water. After drinking the water, he found that Yingjila had not left and did not talk to her. He put down the water jar and picked up the tile again.
After picking up the tile, Wu Dongfang suddenly remembered something and held the tile in his hand to look at it carefully.
"Look, are these tiles?" Wu Dongfang handed the tiles to Yingjira.
Yingjila took it and took a look, "It has edges, it should be part of the tiles."
After Injira finished speaking, she raised her hand to show the tiles to Buck and Ryan who were not far away. After looking at them, the two nodded and confirmed, "These are tiles covering the roof."
Wu Dongfang didn't ask again, and Ryan and others also realized that most of the houses at this time were thatched or wooden, and very few used tiles. The reason was that tiles were very expensive and ordinary people couldn't afford them.
This is a desert area, and there are hundreds of miles of Gobi to the east. It would be understandable if there were fragments of water containers here, but it would be unreasonable if there were tiles, because no one would carry such a thing with them unless this thing It belongs here.
The appearance of tiles indicates that there is probably a city buried in yellow sand in this area, and the tiles themselves can only be used by high-end buildings. From this, it can be inferred that the city that may exist has certain characteristics. scale.
Ryan and others are not familiar with the situation here. They are the younger generation of Star God fighters, but before them, there was a civil war in Babylon, and some of the God's envoys and Star God fighters ran away. These God's envoys and Star God fighters are likely to understand The situation here is that there is a city buried by yellow sand somewhere nearby.
Every city must have a well. If they really regard this city as their base camp, they can directly use the wells in the city without looking for water sources on the ground.
In addition, although he did not understand what the undead army was, he roughly inferred that it should be a shadowy creature, and the dark underground environment was exactly what they needed.
Thinking of this, Wu Dongfang grabbed the water jar and drank a few sips, then put down the water jar and stretched out his fingers, "There is probably an underground city covered with sand in this area. Find it!"