full-time lord

Chapter 57

At night, the Usu Tali Desert is extraordinarily vast.

The sun went down infinitely sadly, the moon rose slowly, and there were dots of silver light on the ground.Here is the famous Sea of ​​Death, which straddles the hinterland of the continent and is very remote.

In this barren land, except for a very few desert oases where there are people, the rest of the place is full of yellow sand, and there are almost no people.

night comes.The hot air gradually cooled down, and the scalding gravel also became icy cold.

The silver sandcastle city is particularly eye-catching under the moonlight.This is one of the few buildings in the desert. It stands on the oasis, which means that this is a desert oasis city.

On the desert, only with such a castle will the desert oasis be recognized as an official territory.The bigger the oasis, the more prosperous the population, the bigger the sandcastle will be built, representing the strength and glory of the oasis.

In recent years, the area of ​​the oasis in this city has been shrinking, and the water source for survival has gradually dried up, so this city has gradually declined.

Around the sandcastle, there are dozens of tents scattered dots, in which the aborigines in the desert live.These people are old and young, all of them are yellow and thin, skinny, and wear tattered clothes. They look very poor.After careful calculation, there are only three or four hundred people here.

Outside the desert oasis, there was nothing but three old camels tied and two young goats.Around the oasis, there are several date palm trees, and the date palms on them have been picked long ago.All that was left of the visible vegetation were large clusters of dwarf camel's thorns.Next to these camel thorns, there is an olive tree half a person's height, and it will take a long time before it blooms and bears fruit.

"Someone is coming, someone is coming, Zauri." At this moment, a child with bare buttocks scrambled and crawled into the sandcastle to report: "There are a lot of people, at least thousands of people!"

"Don't lie, Hawke, be careful I'll beat you up." At this moment, a middle-aged man who was cooking dates didn't lift his head. He was about 30 years old, and his face was sharp and angular from the desert wind and sand. , the skin is bronze.Due to the high temperature required to cook dates, he was shirtless and sweaty at this time.

"Really, really, I won't lie to you." The kid named Hawke said anxiously: "Whoever lied to you is born of a camel, okay!"

Seeing Hawke's appearance, the middle-aged man put down the tools in his hand, turned off the fire, and then slowly climbed to the top of the sandcastle, looking forward.

When he saw the black crowd, the big man named Zauri hurried down and ran down and said, "Hurry up, gather everyone."

"There is a desert oasis in front, young master." Victor pointed to the standing silver sandcastle in front, and excitedly said to Zhao Feng: "That is our family territory."

"Okay, let me go!" Hearing Victor's words, Zhao Feng's fatigue from the past few days was swept away, and he first rode a camel and ran forward.

The crowd behind followed him closely and ran towards the sandcastle.All of a sudden, the dust billowed, people neighed on their backs, and it was very lively.

To Zhao Feng's surprise, when he rushed to the sand castle, he was not greeted by flowers and food, but a group of hungry people with spatulas and shovels.

"I tell you, I have no money here. You guys have no way to rob us. If you want to rob us of food, we will fight you desperately!"

At this time, a group of ragged, old and young guys rushed towards Zhao Feng, brandishing messy weapons.Seeing such a scene, Zhao Feng almost fell off the camel in fright.

"What are you doing!"

Zhao Feng jumped off the camel directly and said, "Who are you to be rude to me?"

At this moment, Victor came over and said, "Zauli, hurry up and take care of your people. You have hurt the lord, and I will skin you off."

"My lord?" Looking at Zhao Feng, Zauri showed a puzzled expression.

Victor said: "This is Duck. Lord Evans, Jerry. The grandson of Lord Evans, the current Lord. You kid, hurry up and kneel down."

"Yes, master." The big man named Zauri looked at Zhao Feng, and found that he looked very handsome, not at all heroic, and there were two girls beside him, and he couldn't help showing a contemptuous expression. Heart said: "This is another corrupt nobleman!"

However, he quickly gathered his clansmen.

Zhao Feng took a casual look at this moment, and found that these people were old and young, and there were not many middle-aged people at all.As for the oasis in front of him, the vegetation has been severely damaged, and there are no green grass or trees at all.

Zhao Feng had already estimated that the situation he could encounter was very bad, but seeing the appearance in front of him, he couldn't help showing a little disappointment in his heart.

"This place is really poor and white!"

After looking around casually, Zhao Feng just didn't find anything valuable.The environment here also looks very bad, not suitable for human habitation at all.

"Hurry up and get some water and some food for the lord to welcome." Victor said to Zauri: "Hurry up. This time, we brought thousands of people here."

"Thousands of people? We don't have that much food." Hearing Victor's words, a woman who looked older said.

"Don't worry about it. This time, the lord brought a lot of food and tools." Victor said, "I guarantee you will have something to eat."

Zauri said to the old people and children: "Hurry up and get ready. Remember, bring more water for the lord and the others to drink. No, let's take out some of our own water first."

"But, we really don't have much water left." At this moment, a member of Zauri's tribe hesitated.

"If you are told to do it, do it, don't talk nonsense." At this moment, Zauri reprimanded that person: "Anyway, let's deal with today first."

Hearing Zauri's words, Zhao Feng said: "Not busy, not busy. Tell me, what happened here? How can I see that this place is either old people or children, young people?"

Zauri sighed and said, "To tell you the truth, my lord, the manholes here have gradually dried up. The young people have all gone out to make a living. Most of the rest are old men or children who can't walk. .We plan to wait a few days and leave this place too.”

"There is no water source?" Hearing Zauri's words, Zhao Feng showed a nervous expression on his face.In the desert, the most important thing is water.Without water, everything is empty.

"Yes, my lord." Zauri said: "You brought so many people here at once, I'm afraid there may be some problems. Our small sandcastle can't provide so much water at all..."

"No water?" At this moment, another problem was posed in front of Zhao Feng.This problem cannot be solved simply with money.If we can't solve the water problem, everything is just a fantasy.

(End of this chapter)