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Chapter 287
"It's so far away, I don't know if Datou and the others can see the cloud-piercing arrow 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, a team appeared in the telescope far to the north.

It's just that Wangchuan ran a dead horse.

The camel itself is slow and carries a heavy bag of salt.It wasn't until the sun went down that the team came to Ren Ning and Lei Er.

This is a little oasis.

The surface of the lake is only two or three acres, and the lake water is only a shallow layer, which looks like it will dry up at any time.

But such a small amount of lake water feeds many creatures around it.

Ren Ning and Lei Er sat by a fire, smiling and raised the sand fox meat in their hands towards Gu Datou and his party.

"It's just baked, do you want some?"

Before Gu Datou could speak, Matthew wiped off the thin dust on his face, and leaned over in a stern manner.

"Master Ning, isn't this place not far from the Xiliang Prairie?"

Ren Ning took a deep look at him.

This Matthew, sometimes he is very courageous.

Knowing that Ren Ning and others killed people without blinking an eye, they still stayed and tried to keep their caravan.

Sometimes he is very timid.

Ever since he followed Gu Datou and his party on this never-before-traveled road, Matthew's heart has been tightly entangled, and he still hasn't let it go.

"Sit!" Ren Ning motioned him to sit down.

"Walking south from here for about ten days, you will see a large stone forest. When you arrive at the stone forest, there are already grass heads on the ground. It is estimated that you will be able to walk to the Xiliang Prairie in two or three days."

Gu Datou and the others lifted their spirits, "That's great."

In this way, they can return to the Xiliang Prairie in about 20 days.Much faster than the previous one and a half months away.

"Not to mention." Lei Er smiled next to him: "That stone forest looks like a treasure land of geomantic omen. There are trees and water around, and the environment is very good. Kai Lun should occupy it..."

"Stone Forest?" Matthew's face suddenly turned pale.

He murmured: "Is it a large stone forest that is about three or four people tall and looks strange?"

"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 next to him also remembered.

They couldn't help but look a little ugly.

Someone hesitated to speak: "My lord, 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 that, the Karen people, led by Tiele, went north to find new pastures, and they also bypassed this place far away.

Horse Bandit Stone Forest?

Ren Ning was taken aback.

This is already the north-central part of Xiliang, and it is more than a thousand miles away from the border of Yunchui.

Besides, it's just a gang of horse thieves, and they usually don't come into the attention of Yanzhen Fortress, so he really doesn't know that there is such a place and such a group of forces.

A few days ago, the two came here in a hurry. After using binoculars to see the green plants around the stone forest in the south, they judged that this road was feasible, so they turned around and headed north to meet Gu Datou and the others.

Ren Ning was speechless.

I thought this was a shortcut, but I didn't expect there to be a group of obstacles in the way.

He casually stuffed the sand fox meat in his hand to the person next to him, and re-examined the map in his hand.

"Does any of you know where the Horse Bandit Stone Forest is?"

"My lord, I'm sorry." The Kailun tribe looked embarrassed, "We don't know how to read, and we don't understand maps."

"I know." Matthew came over.

He looked at the map, but was a little dumbfounded.

Ren Ning's map has drawn many famous places in Xiliang, such as the location of the Angel tribe and the surrounding terrain.

In addition, there is the general direction of the Desert of No Return and the locations of the oases.

But because it is drawn while walking, the map is very rough, and many places are blank.

Matthew didn't dare to complain, and after looking around for a long time, he found where the old Luoxi tribe was.

"Master Ning, Lao Luoxi's geographical location is very good, almost in the southern center of the Xiliang Prairie. But it has been unable to develop. It is because of the existence of the Horse Bandit Stone Forest."

This group of vicious horse thieves would go south to rob every once in a while, and the neighboring big tribes also used the small Luoxi as a strategic buffer, so they could only make allowances in the cracks and never grow up.

Matthew's finger pointed at the position of old Luoxi, and swiped directly upwards, and finally landed on the edge of the desert of no return.

Boom!

He tapped the map lightly, "Lord Ning, this location is the Horse Bandit Stone Forest."

Looking further north, it is where they are now and the salt lake farther away.

A group of people breathed a sigh of relief.

Knowing your exact location, it is easy to get out of the desert of no return under your feet.

As for the horse bandit stone forest, just go around from the left and right sides.

They are now leading a long camel caravan, most of them are Matthew's caravan slaves or herdsmen of the Karen tribe, and their combat power is almost zero.

Therefore, it is not suitable to kill from the front of the horse bandit stone forest.

Ren Ning thought about it and asked Matthew to supplement the map.

He chirped and blew his whistle.

Zhui Feng and Ben Lei just drank enough water and were playing by the small lake.

Hearing the master's whistle, it ran over grumpily.

Ren Ning got on his horse, patted the black horse's neck, and pointed towards the high ground not far away.

Zhuifeng understood what he meant, raised his hoof and rushed directly towards the small sand dune.

"Master Ning, what's going on?" Matthew was a little puzzled.His subordinates kept adding the tribes and water sources they knew to the map one by one.

Lei Er didn't make a sound.

He patted Gu Datou next to him: "Let the brothers cheer up and pay attention to preparing for the battle."

A few days ago, after they found out that this road was accessible, they ran a long way north before putting the Cloud Piercing Arrow in the sky.

Since Gu Datou, who is far away in the salt lake, can see the cloud-piercing arrow in the sky, maybe the horse bandit Shilin in the south can also see it.

If they had groped in to have a look, they would have been near this little oasis around this time.

South.

Swiddy, who was blind, cursed and led a ten-man team, riding a few skinny horses, one foot deep and the other shallow, heading north.

"Damn him. Do you think it's easy to bully me because I'm blind in one eye?"

"Big winter asked me to lead a team into this desert of no return to check the situation..."

Others rubbed their ears with pain on their faces.

"Captain, don't keep complaining. After listening to it for a few days, everyone's ears are almost full of cocoons."

"Yes. Or some other curse words will do."

"You all should be serious and keep your eyes open. Since someone released the cloud-piercing arrow, there may be a caravan lost in the Desert of No Return. It happened to be cheap for us."

"Fart caravan, just dream." Sverrendi spat the man hard.

"Did you forget the super dust explosion more than two months ago? It was so terrifying that even the bosses didn't 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 team into this desert of no return in the near future?"

"The captain is right." The others nodded.

"That shouldn't be a caravan. It's more likely that nearby herdsmen broke in unintentionally and lost their way."

"Whoever he is." Swiddy waved his hand, "It's going to be dark again. Let's go another ten miles, and if we still find nothing, we'll go back and report back."

(End of this chapter)