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Chapter 288 Huting Tochi
Ten miles is not a big distance on the grassland, but it is still quite far in the desert.

It took a lot of time for the ten people to walk quickly and slowly.

"Unlucky, I found nothing in this ghostly place." Swiddy looked around, "That sand dune is leeward, let's rest there. Turn around and go back to Stone Forest tomorrow."

A group of people nodded yes.

Suddenly, someone's teeth became knotted, "team, captain..."

"What's the matter?" Swiddy was very angry.

I led the team to search for a few days, but found nothing.He was so tired that he didn't even want to turn his head.

Just as he was talking, Swiddy suddenly felt something was wrong.

The Desert of No Return is usually silent except for the sound of wind and sand, and it is no exception now, but for some reason, there is a chill in his heart.

He turned his head sharply.

At some point, this leeward hill was surrounded by a group of people who suddenly appeared.The shining weapon in his hand was aimed at them.

There are knives, guns and arrows.

"Be honest, raise your hands!" Someone yelled: "Anyone who dares to move will be killed!"

Swiddy's heart skipped a beat.

It's just that he was blind in one eye and couldn't see other directions, so he couldn't help turning his head to look around.

Just turned around.

call out!
The bowstring sounded.

Swede was hit by an arrow in the neck, and immediately fell to the ground, and there was no more sound except blood.

Death is the best warning.

The faces of all the horse thieves changed drastically, and they all raised their hands high in fright, not daring to move again.

Lei Er and the others rushed over ferociously, and quickly searched the horse thief and the skinny horse they rode.

"Old Ren, we found the Cloud Piercing Arrows on their bodies."

Ren Ning nodded and waved his hand.

Lei Er and the others had already mastered the routine, so they immediately separated the horse thieves and asked about the situation separately.

"There are still nine of you. We will answer our questions after thinking about them. As long as your answers are different from others'. Hehe..."

"Yes Yes Yes!"

Seeing that they were decisive in killing the boss, the horse thieves didn't dare to think too much, and nodded their heads vigorously.

Half an hour later, the information from the question was collected in Ren Ning's hands.

"Only this team came in to check the situation?"

"Yes." Lei Er nodded, "It's all due to the previous sandstorm."

Two months later, the super dust storm hit.The horse thief in the stone forest saw the unstoppable wind and sand, so frightened that the whole team hurried south to avoid it.

They have only returned to their lair these few days, and they can't get too many people to come in and check for a while.

And such a violent sandstorm is likely to destroy all the road signs in the desert.

Caravan goods are expensive, and merchant leaders are always cautious.At this time, no caravan should be so bold as to lead a team directly into the Desert of No Return.

The Cloud Piercing Arrow that was discovered before is probably the pathfinding team sent by those caravans who lost their way.

Such a team can be said to be penniless, and the leader of the horse thief did not pay attention to it.

Ren Ning and Lei Er looked at each other.

It seems that in the eyes of the leader of the horse thieves, they belong to the kind of people who are bold and reckless.

Continuing to look down, Ren Ning frowned: "Five hundred, there are only so many horse thieves in the stone forest?"

At least not as much as he imagined.

"More than 500 people, not too small." Lei Er smiled.

In the territory of Yunchui, once there are more than four or five hundred bandits on the mountain, the imperial court will send local guards to go up the mountain to suppress the bandits.

Of course this refers to the normal situation.

In places like Laigu where civil unrest once occurred, there are probably [-] bandits on the hills if there are not [-].

Compared with Yunchui's mountain bandits, Xiliang's horse bandits were extremely ferocious, and their combat effectiveness and elimination rate were also higher.

In Laigu, anyone who has eyes and can hold a stick can be a bandit.Here, if you don't know how to ride a horse or can't ride a horse well, it's hard to be a horse thief.

Moreover, once low-level horse thieves are injured or disabled, they may be directly abandoned by the team.In addition, horse thieves never pay attention to respecting the old and loving the young or caring for the young.

Therefore, their number has not been increased.But the strength is far from what the same number of bandits on Luoxia Mountain can match.

"However." Lei Er tapped a name on it, "This horse thief leader named Hu Ting Tochi has been taking in children from Xiliang recently. It seems that he is planning to expand the number of horse thieves in Stone Forest."

"Huting Tochi?" Ren Ning looked at the name thoughtfully, "Huting, this is the surname of the Xiliang royal family."

Uh!
Lei Er slapped his forehead heavily, "Don't tell me I really didn't notice this."

The two looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

It seems that the royal family of Xiliang is not united as one, they also have their own ideas.

It's just that Hu Ting Tochi should be the loser, and finally became a horse thief in the stone forest.

"Go and ask those people, when did this Huting Tochi arrive in this horse bandit stone forest?"

"Understood." Lei Er turned and left.

Not long after, he came back with regret on his face, "Old Ren, the nine people can't tell clearly."

Ren Ning nodded, not surprised.

The wind and sand had just subsided and it was still winter, so the ones who could be sent out to check the situation were naturally not important horse thieves.

It's normal for them not to know.

"This is an ambitious horse thief." Ren Ning said Huting Tochi's name emphatically, "I'll see you later, if you can subdue him, subdue him. If you can't subdue him, you must kill him."

"Understood!" Lei Er nodded, "What about the nine pony thieves?"

"Let them go back to respond internally."

Lei Er understood, carried the machete and whistled and left again.

Ahhh.

Not long after, there were five screams around the small sand dune.

The surviving horse thieves were trembling with fright, looking pitifully at their guards, but they didn't hum a word.

After a while, the remaining four horse thieves reunited.

No one is not afraid of death, several people look at each other, their eyes are full of fear.

In the darkness of night, Lei Er walked over like a god of death, and there was a dark color on the big knife on his shoulder.

The horse thieves knew that it was the person in charge, and opened their eyes wide, but they couldn't see what was on the knife.

At this time, a biting north wind blew, bringing a strong smell of blood from above.

The four of them felt their legs go limp, almost unable to stand.

Hey.

Lei Er squatted down and looked at them with a wide smile.

"Those five people are so brave, they dared to lie in front of Lao Tzu. So now they have gone to see your wolf god."

"As for the four of you, you're honest, what you said is right..."

Lei Er stroked his chin, as if he was thinking about how to deal with them.

One of the horse thieves with a mustache just thought he was going to die, but he was surprised and happy when he heard what Lei Er said.

cough!
He coughed lightly.

Seeing that no one was glaring or drawing their swords at each other, Mustache hurriedly opened his mouth.

"This captain," he thought it was Zhi Yunchui's caravan, "as long as you let the younger one go, you can obey any request."

Oh?
Lei Er glanced at him indifferently, almost not seeing the mustache as having a heart attack.

After being silent for a long while, Lei Er took out a ball on his body and took out a ball with a strange smell.

"The caravan pays attention to the value of peace, and they come all the way here just for money. I am not an indiscriminate murderer. If I hadn't lost my way, I wouldn't have broken into this place."

"That's it. Eat it up and let you go."

(End of this chapter)