"It's so far away, I don't know if Datou and the others can see the cloud-penetrating arrows we fired?"
Lei Er was a little worried.
Ren Dian calculated the distance and said with a smile: "Don't worry. Unless they are asleep, they will definitely be able to see it."
Sure enough, on the morning of the seventh day, the team's figure appeared far north in the telescope.
It's just that Wangchuan is a dead horse.
The camels themselves were slow and carried heavy bags of salt. It wasn't until the sun set that the team reached Ren Ning and Lei Er.
This is a little oasis.
The lake surface is only two or three acres, and the water in the lake is only shallow, and it looks like it will dry up at any time.
But this little lake water supports many living things around it.
Ren Ning and Lei Er sat by a fire, smiling and raising the shox meat in their hands towards Gu Datou and his party.
"It's just baked, do you want some?"
Before Gu Datou could say anything, Matthew wiped off the thin dust on his face and came over shamelessly.
"Master Ning, is this not far from the Xiliang Prairie?"
Ren Ning looked at him deeply.
This Matthew is very courageous sometimes.
He knew that Ren Ning and others were killing people without batting an eye, but they still stayed and tried to save their caravan.
Sometimes he is very timid.
Ever since he followed Gu Datou and his entourage on this road they had never walked before, Matthew's heart had been tightly knotted, and he still hasn't let go until now.
"Sit!" Ren Ning motioned for him to sit down.
"If you walk south for about ten days from here, you will see a large stone forest. When you reach the stone forest, there are already grass heads on the ground. It is estimated that you can reach the Xiliang Prairie in another two or three days."
Gu Datou and others cheered up, "That's great."
In this way, they can return to the Xiliang Prairie in about twenty days. It is much faster than the previous one and a half month journey.
"Don't mention it yet." Lei Er smiled next to him: "That stone forest looks like a geomantic treasure. There are trees and water around, and the environment is very good. Kailun should occupy it..."
"Stone Forest?" Matthew's face suddenly turned pale.
He murmured: "Isn't it a large stone forest that is about three or four people tall and looks strangely shaped?"
"Yes." Ren Ning and Lei Er looked at each other, "Have you seen Ma Shangshou before? Is there anything wrong with it?"
When Matthew said this, the Karen man next to him also thought about it.
Their faces couldn't help but look a little ugly.
Someone hesitated and said: "Sister, that stone forest is very famous on the grassland. It is one of the most famous gathering places for horse thieves. Everyone calls it the horse bandit stone forest."
Before, the Kelon people, led by Tiele, went north to look for new pastures, but they also avoided this place far away.
Horse Bandit Stone Forest?
Ren Ning was stunned.
This is already the central and northern part of Xiliang, more than a thousand miles away from the Yunchui border.
Furthermore, they were just a bunch of horse thieves, and usually would not come into the attention of Yancheng Fortress, so he really didn't know that there was such a place and such a group of forces.
The two of them came in a hurry a few days ago. After using their binoculars to see green plants around the stone forest in the south, they judged that this road was feasible and turned around again to pick up Gu Datou and the others.
Ren Ning was a little speechless.
I originally thought this was a shortcut, but I didn't expect there was a roadblock ahead.
He casually handed the shox meat to the person next to him and re-examined the map in his hand.
"Does any of you know where Ma Bandit Stone Forest is?"
"Uncle, I'm sorry." The Kailun tribe members looked embarrassed, "We don't know the words, and we can't read the map."
"I know." Matthew walked over.
Ren Ning's map has already drawn many famous places in Xiliang, such as the location of the Angel tribe and the surrounding terrain.
In addition, there is also the general direction of the Desert of No Return and the location of the oases.
But because I was drawing while walking, the map was very rough and many places were blank.
Matthew was a little dumbfounded for a moment, and it took him a long time to find the location of the old Luoxi tribe.
"Lao Luoxi's geographical location is very good, almost in the center of the south of the Xiliang Prairie. But it has never been able to develop. It's because of the existence of the Ma bandit stone forest."
This group of vicious horse thieves would go south to rob every once in a while, and the neighboring large tribes also used Luo Xi as a strategic buffer, so they could only make ends meet in the cracks.
Matthew's finger pointed at the position of old Luoxi and moved directly upward, finally landing on the edge of the Desert of No Return.
Bang bang!
He tapped the map lightly and said, "Master Ning, this location is Ma Bandit Stone Forest."
Looking further north, we see their current location and the Salt Lake farther away.
A group of people breathed a sigh of relief.
Once you know your exact location, it's easy to get out of the desert of no return at your feet.
As for the Horse Bandit Stone Forest, you can go around it from the left and right sides.
They are now leading a long camel team, and most of the people in the team are Matthew's caravan slaves or Kelun tribe herdsmen, and their combat power is almost useless.
Therefore, it is not suitable to kill from the front of Ma Bandit Stone Forest.
Ren Ning thought for a while and asked Matthew to complete the map.
He whistled loudly.
Zhui Feng and Ben Lei had just finished drinking water and were playing by the small lake.
Hearing his master's whistle, he came running over.
Ren Ning got on his horse, patted the black horse's neck, and pointed towards the high ground not far away.
Zhui Feng understood what he meant, raised his hooves and rushed directly towards the small sand dune.
"Master Ning, what is going on?" Matthew was a little confused. However, his subordinates kept adding the tribes and water source locations they knew on the map one by one.
Lei Er said nothing.
He patted Gu Datou next to him: "Brothers, please cheer up and prepare for war."
A few days ago, they discovered that this road was accessible and ran north for a long distance before placing the cloud-piercing arrow in the sky.
Since Gu Datou, who is far away in the salt lake, can see the cloud-piercing arrows in the sky, maybe Ma Bandi Stone Forest in the south can also see them.
If they had come in for a closer look, they would have arrived near this small oasis around this time.
south.
The blinded Swedy cursed and led a team of ten people, riding a few skinny horses, walking north with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
"He brewed it. Do you think I'm easy to bully because I'm blind in one eye?"
"In the middle of winter, let me lead a team into this desert of no return to inspect the situation..."
Others had faces full of pain and rubbed their ears.
"Captain, please stop complaining all the time. After listening to it for so many days, everyone's ears are almost numb."
"Yeah. Or you can use some curse words instead."
"You all should be serious. Since someone has released the Cloud-piercing Arrow, there may be a caravan lost in the Desert of No Return. This will give us an advantage."
"It's a caravan, just keep dreaming." Sweilendi sprayed the man hard.
"Have you forgotten the super dust explosion more than two months ago? The power was so frightening that even the bosses did not dare to stay in the stone forest anymore and ran into the grassland to escape."
"The caravan is the smartest. Do you think anyone will dare to lead a caravan into this desert of no return in the near future?"
"The captain is right." Others nodded.
"That shouldn't be a caravan. It's more likely that nearby herdsmen broke in accidentally and got lost."
"Whoever he is." Swedy waved his hand, "It's getting dark again. Let's go ten miles further. If we still find nothing, let's go back and recover."