Hearing the old man's words, the man with the scimitar hanging from his waist couldn't help showing a trace of excitement.
"Asa, shall we go in now?"
The man looked up at the huge rocky mountains, and the ghost town exposed to them in the sunlight.
When the man was talking to the old man, other people in the camel team were whispering and discussing something. The older people all had excited expressions on their faces, and the younger children were infected by the adults, and they were particularly excited. Excited.
This camel caravan walking in the desert, no matter men, women, young or old, all wore necklaces made of the teeth of unknown beasts on their chests, and the costumes under their outer robes had a very special color of the desert minority.
This is not a caravan.
They are Buyik people.
In the inland desert in the northwest of Jintang, before Guangwu moved here, there were very few ethnic groups living here, and the Buyik ethnic group was one of them. They are walking in the northern part of Fuyi, in the Kaledroma Desert deep in the northwest of Jintang, and they are a nomadic tribe.
In the local dialect of Guazhou, "Buyike" means "sand that travels with the wind".
The Buyik tribe is a tribe that wanders in the desert.
I don't know when it started, but the Buyik people walked in the Kalachorma Desert with the sandstorm, and they were born with the meager precipitation season by season. During the reign of Guangwu, when the Jin Tang moved northward as refugees, they also tried to make this tribe that wandered the desert settled in the oasis.
But this tribe, which seemed strange even in Keledroma, seemed to be chasing something all day long, and did not settle down according to the requirements of Jintang officials. It was still wandering in the desert, acting strangely.
Later, several caravans were robbed. The garrison in Jintang suspected that they were made by the Buyik people, and they had surrounded and suppressed them several times, but they were like fish in water in the desert, walking mysteriously and hard to find. After mobilizing the army several times, the garrison of Jintang gave up this thought.
However, since then, the Buyik people have been put on the arrest warrant of Jintang. Besides being called "vagrants like sand", they are also called "exiled tribes".
In the Buyik tribe, Asa means "a psychic spirit, an omnipotent wizard".
The old man called "Asa" by the men is a wizard of the Buyik tribe, and he is somewhat similar to the priests in the tribe of the Wild Spirit Dynasty. Among the Buyek tribe, Asa's status is extremely high.
Asa is the most knowledgeable person among the Buyik tribe, and he is also the one who communicates with the souls of the ancestors and can predict disasters.
In response to the man's question, Asa shook his head. He hunched his back and put away the map in his hand: "Krona, let everyone rest for a while. We will go into Nam again in the evening when the wind is about to rise. old haunt."
Namu, in the Great Desert of Kalachorma, refers to the omnipotent god of subjugation.
The original residents of Klazhuoma believe that after death, the soul will return to the kingdom that should belong to the rule of death, where eight sky pillars prop up the sky, black water surrounds the sky pillars, and the god named Namu rules over there. . And Namu is also the god of the desert. The autumn and winter storms in the Klazhuoma Desert are Namu's respite.
This saying has been passed down from generation to generation among the primitive inhabitants of the desert and is deeply rooted.
This is also one of the reasons why Jiuxuanmen was too lazy to establish a branch here. The local people respected these sects and believed that the power of immortal cultivators violated the majesty of Namu. Once Jiuxuanmen recruited children here, and a few qualified children were tested, but the other party would rather die than join the sect.
The disciple of Jiuxuan Inner Sect who was in charge at the time walked away in a huff.
In fact, even in the Jintang Dynasty, Guazhou, a land outside the Great Wall, had an embarrassing status.
The literati of the Jin Tang called this place "the land of barbarians, the people who are aliens, and they are beyond stupid", and scolded them for rejecting the order of farming during the Guangwu period as "violating the grace of heaven and treason".
Asa's order cannot be disobeyed, so even if the leader named "Kron" wants to enter the old place of Namu they have been looking for for many years, he suppresses the excitement in his heart and orders the tribe to find a place to set up a tent and rest first , Wait until the evening, when the sandstorm is about to rise, and then enter the old place of Nam.
Tents were set up one after another, and the first one to be set up was a more ornate tent with many bone carving decorations.
Kron helped Asa into the tent.
"Asa, have we really arrived at Namu's hometown?"
There was no one around, so Krona asked Asa. He seemed very excited, but he couldn't believe it.
"The majesty of Namu is like the sun shining on Kla Zhuoma, and the sun will never stop. The people of Namu will eventually return to their hometown." Asa holds a string of bone and tooth bracelets in his hand, and each bone tooth on the bracelet has mysterious and peculiar Relief, rough and wild style, "Buyk is the tomb keeper of Nam, don't forget our mission, Krona."
"Yes."
When Asa mentioned the word "gravekeeper", Cron's expression suddenly became serious, with a kind of solemnity, and he subconsciously sat up straight.
"Bring Amu here." Asa half closed his eyes, turning the bone tooth bracelet in his hand, "I want to ask her a few words."
Ke Lang bowed his head and answered "Yes", stood up, bent down, lifted the curtain and walked out.
When Kron walked out, Asa stopped turning the bone tooth bracelet in his hand and frowned.
The old man with a high reputation in the Buyik tribe looked at the necklace in his hand suspiciously, and muttered to himself: "It's hard to distinguish the one, and the days are complicated. It's strange, why can't you figure it out?"
After a while, Kron came back with "Amu".
The Amu they talked about was a little girl of eleven or twelve years old, thin and small—this is almost the case for Buyik children, and the year-round trek in the Kalachorma Desert was beyond the load of children of this age.
Amu's hair is half long, turned into many small braids and tied behind his head with a dull colored headband. The animal tooth necklace hanging around his neck is several times that of other children. On his face with deep facial features, a pair of deep-set eyes Dark green with exotic ethnicity.
There seems to be nothing special about this little girl, but if you look at her sunken eyes, you will feel a chill for no reason, and the expression on Amu's face also has a mysterious color, half dreaming, half awake , it seems that the world in her eyes is different from everyone else.
"Amu, what did you see?"
Asa asked, the voice had a peculiar tone, as if it came from a long way away.
The girl seemed to be awakened suddenly, she shuddered, and looked at Asa who was holding the bracelet: "I... I saw someone."
"Who?" Crone asked.
Amu's language expression ability seems not very good, but from her fragmentary description, Asa and Kron still put together a picture.
Amu saw that in the dead darkness, there were huge columns rising from the ground and reaching to the sky, and many overlapping figures came and went, but she couldn't see those figures clearly, the only one who could see clearly, It was someone who had his back to her from beginning to end.
The man was wearing a hat and a wide cloak. When the cloak was raised, Amu saw a long, golden, burning bow in his hand.
"That bow elder has grown."
Amu had a look of surprise on her face. She is a Buyik who is good at martial arts, and there are many excellent archers, but she has never seen a bow as long as that person's hand, and it is still golden. On fire.
Could it be made of gold? How valuable that is.
Amu thought.
Asa and Krona obviously don't focus on whether the longbow is made of gold like the eleven-year-old Amu. Asa asked Amu to explain in detail what the bow looked like, but Amu stumbled and would only repeat "golden, old and long, and still burning".
Asa frowned, thought for a while, took out a roll of cloth, and spread it out: "Amu, come and check it out, is it exactly the same as this one?"
Amu leaned over, only took a look, and nodded repeatedly.
"The bow of the setting sun." Asa suddenly realized, and muttered in his mouth, "No wonder the time is so complicated, there is no Taiyi at all... The guy from the setting sun has come out, it is someone who wants to shoot down the sun."
Amu glanced at the elderly Asa in a daze, unable to understand what he meant.
………………………………………………………………
"Didn't you say it would take a day?"
During the day, the sun in Guazhou was scorching hot, and the rocks protruding from the top of the cave where they were located barely provided a little shade. Ye Qiusheng spent most of the day disposing of those wolf carcasses, and after disposing of them, put them into the storage ring as a food reserve.
Who knows if they'll find something else to eat next
When Ye Qiusheng was thinking about something at the entrance of the cave, he suddenly heard a sound from behind.
Bailishu coughed, supported the rock wall, and walked out of the cave.
When he stood at the entrance of the cave, Ye Qiusheng looked at him in this well-lit place, and found that this man's face was indeed unreasonably pale.
Baili Shu didn't answer his question, he still looked in a bad situation, barely standing while leaning on the rock, frowning slightly and looking out of the ghost town.
"Camel caravan." Baili Shu said, "Someone is going to enter the ghost town."
Ye Qiusheng nodded.
In the desert, the sound of the camel bell was distant and extremely penetrating. He had stood at the entrance of the cave for a while, and vaguely heard the sound of the camel bell mixed with the sound of the wind.
Last night Ye Qiusheng carried the comatose Bailishu on his back and didn't dare to go too deep into the ghost town, he only went a distance enough to avoid the wind and sand before stopping. But the direction from which the camel bell was heard in the wind was the place where they appeared yesterday evening.
The sound of camel bells is far away, and it sounds like it cannot be made by one or two camels.
This is a caravan.
Is it a caravan
But where is the caravan coming to the notorious ghost town for no reason