The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 360 The Oasis of the Bedai Barbarians

The distribution of oases in the Enuooke Desert is very distinctive. A series of small oases are always strung together to form a geographical wonder similar to a string of beads, showing a straight or curved trend.

These oases are almost all the same size, with a head and a tail. Every once in a while, the oasis at the end will turn into a desert again due to the exhaustion of resources and the deterioration of the environment, and several new oases will appear along the direction of the head and head.These new oases are very strange. The land is fertile and the water source is abundant, but nothing can grow. It can only be regarded as barren land, but as long as crops are planted on it, it can be harvested without any management.

The Bedai barbarian is such a desert tribe that follows the oasis life. They use tribes as units and live scattered in various oases.The Bedai barbarians are essentially nomadic peoples. The bravest young people among them will form a team, led by an experienced leader, to search for a new oasis in the desert, and occasionally act as a robber to rob the passing caravan.

When the Bedai barbarians find a new oasis, they will plant crops and pastures on the new oasis. Some of them will choose to settle here in the coming year, and the rest will gather new young people to continue exploring the future.The elders of the Bedai barbarians generally choose to die with the oasis, of course, this usually only happens on the oasis that is about to perish.The life of a Bede barbarian grows up in youth, explores in youth, settles down in middle age, and then goes to death together in old age and the oasis that accompanied him all his life, just like a reincarnation.

However, in recent years, the length of the oasis chain has been much longer than before, and many elderly people have thrown themselves into the arms of death before the oasis they settled in dies.Of course, this situation is a good thing for the Bedai barbarians, which means that the rate of oasis degradation is slowing down, and the number of oases supporting their lives is correspondingly increasing.

What William found was an oasis that was about to be abandoned.This oasis is no longer inhabited, and there are no buildings on it. Most of the Bedai barbarians like to live in tents, and generally do not build permanent residence buildings.The people who moved away did not destroy the vegetation here, but it is not much different from the destruction, because the soil of the oasis has been seriously desertified, and most of the surrounding vegetation has died. The nearly dry dry well barely survived.

Of course, this does not mean that there are no other creatures on the oasis.

What the Ethiopian lizardmen like to do most is to follow the tribes of the Bedai barbarians to plunder. They like to choose the oasis that is about to die as their base, and then follow the direction of the oasis chain, sweeping the Bedai barbarian tribes along the way one by one .

Basically, in every oasis chain discovered by the Ethiopian lizardmen, the Bedai barbarians living there can no longer be peaceful. The later sand lizardmen's environmental tolerance far exceeds that of humans, and they are born experts in guerrilla warfare.

William found a lot of traces left by the Ethiopian saurosaurs in the dead sand date forests, including a large number of human and livestock bones, and most of them were left as food remains, because all the bones were covered with It was full of traces of various teeth biting, including the bone marrow inside was also sucked out.

William suspected that this place might be one of the lairs of the sand lizards they encountered earlier. He suppressed the discomfort in his heart and conducted a general survey of the scene, thus confirming one thing, there were living sand lizards returning been here.Because there was a pair of gnawed spider-eater corpses and a special saddle that was discarded at the scene, the remains were still fresh, and it should have been killed not long ago.

Spider-eating beasts are the favorite mounts of the sand robbers in the Enook Desert. This large monster looks like a giant wasp. It flies very fast and comes and goes like the wind. The sand robbers riding them are like Haunted like a ghost.No Sand Bandit would kill a domesticated spider-eater for food unless it was absolutely necessary or if the jar was broken.

William and his team fought at the seam entrance and killed at least more than 40 Ethiopian sand lizard sand robbers. This number is already a relatively large organization among all sand bandits. The size of a sand bandit that can be supported by an oasis chain is There are restrictions, after all, the Bedai barbarians are not vegetarians.

William was sure that the fish that escaped the net should have returned here early, but they didn't expect that William and his party would follow to the same place.

Sand lizards have a special skill, they can hide under the sand like sand lizards, it is difficult for ordinary people to find their traces, but William is not ordinary people.It was hard to say in the past, but now William has at least two ways to find the sand lizards and sand robbers who are hiding in hiding. One is that he can use the power of the autumn water knife to let him enter a special kind of soul vision. As long as there is a soul, it cannot be hidden from him.The second is undoubtedly his newly awakened sincere consciousness, which can find the target by intuition.

William walked around the oasis, but found no danger, but found something special in the semi-dry well, a pile of buried eggs, identified by Tabari, were sand Eggs produced by lizardfolk.

Regarding how to deal with these sand lizard eggs, Tabari gave two suggestions, one is to destroy them all, after all normal sand lizards are evil existences; the other is to take them with them and wait for them to be found The tribe of the Bedai barbarians gave these eggs as gifts to the Bedai barbarians.

The first method is obviously not in line with William's temperament, and he also has doubts about the second choice. William expressed his doubts: "I want to know, how will those Bedai barbarians deal with these lizard eggs?"

Tabari was always a little uncomfortable with William's inexplicable kindness and morality. She said: "William, I'm surprised that you are not a paladin, otherwise you will definitely become the strongest one under the stars. Don't worry about these future The fate of the hatched lizardmen eggs, they are the hard currency in many desert cities, including the largest city here - the city of ghosts. Sandlizards are highly resistant to various negative energies, they will be hatched safely, and then used as Coolies and servants became members of the city, and if they were lucky, they could even obtain the qualifications of city citizens."

After hearing this, William still felt very uncomfortable, but he also knew that there was nothing he could do.Tabari also seemed to see William's displeasure, and continued to persuade: "William, believe me, this is already the best choice for the unhatched sand lizards, otherwise once they fall into the adult sand lizard sand In the hands of the thief, the first thing after hatching is to be forced to fight with the brothers and sisters who were born together. The loser will be thrown to the gold-eating ants for devouring, and the winner will also suffer various tortures in the process of growing up in the future. and suffering, even less than one-tenth of them can reach adulthood smoothly in the end."

That is to say, of the hundred or ten lizard eggs that William and the others found, under normal circumstances, only ten individuals would have the chance to grow up smoothly. Compared to them, it is undoubtedly more humane to hatch and grow up safely as slaves in the city. s Choice.

(End of this chapter)