Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1711 Oasis
Just as Jie Liancheng had predicted, it was an oasis.

"Look over there, those are all desert plants. If we bring those desert plants back, we can basically complete this mission."

Jie Liancheng smiled and said to Zhou Chongshan.

He didn't seem very nervous.

Because in the previous battles, he was basically certain that the snake people's way of thinking was quite different from that of the human people.

Their human race's strategy is to keep the borders intact, so their large armies and powerful forces are stationed at the borders to defend against foreign enemies. Once the borders are breached, the situation is basically in dire straits.

However, the situation with the snake people is that the powerful snake people occupy the best locations, leaving the poor, resource-poor outposts on the outskirts to the weak and insignificant ones.

The stronghold in front of them was the one that had been allocated to those scumbags.

There's no need to hesitate, just charge straight in and be done with it.

The snake people, who had just escaped, had no idea that the Iron Cavalry would arrive so quickly.

The previous crushing defeat was still fresh in their minds. The snake people, who had just escaped back to their stronghold, dared not fight them again. They turned around and burrowed into the sand and ran away.

Neither Jie Liancheng nor Zhou Chongshan gave this result much thought.

Their forces were limited on this mission, so there was no possibility of them surrounding and killing all the snake people.

Now that they have captured the stronghold, their objective is achieved and they are done with it.

After that, Jie Liancheng and Zhou Chongshan's attention first fell on the houses and buildings in the oasis.

Although those 'houses' were visibly simple, made of piled stones, they were still somewhat beyond their expectations.

As Zhou Chongshan entered one of the rooms, he frowned.

"No, these houses don't belong to those snake people."

Before Jie Liancheng could even react, Zhou Chongshan had already realized the problem.

"How to say?"

“Look at this door. Its size and width are completely mismatched for snake people. In terms of dimensions, it looks more like it was made by humans.”

At this point, out of caution, Zhou Chongshan added another sentence.

"Of course, it could also be other races with similar body size to humans."

Upon hearing this, Xie Liancheng immediately realized what was happening.

"In other words, this oasis did not originally belong to the snake people; they seized it from other races."

Jie Liancheng felt that the probability of them being human was still very high. After all, according to the previous interrogation results, there were still humans living in this desert. It was just unknown where they had hidden themselves in the face of the snake people's threat.

If we can find it, it might provide them with a lot of intelligence.

But there's no use thinking about that now; we should focus on gathering resources first.

These houses actually contained very little, except for some dilapidated and rudimentary utensils and some suspicious dried meat.

Considering the diet of those snake people, they dared not eat these jerky of unknown origin and destroyed them all.

During this time, Xie Liancheng led a group of people to the lakeside, allowing them to replenish their water after being thirsty all the way, and also filled all their water bottles.

After replenishing his water, Jie Liancheng began to inspect the trees and plants in the oasis.

There are quite a few of these kinds, but we can't determine what the seeds of these desert plants are right now. The safest way is to dig them up by the roots.

The ones that are too big are inconvenient to carry, so we can only try to find the smaller ones and bring back as many as possible.

The snake people had all fled from the oasis, which made their subsequent work proceed exceptionally smoothly.

Just when Jie Liancheng and Zhou Chongshan thought their mission would be completed smoothly, a soldier ran over and reported something to them.

After hearing the report, the two men were both taken aback for a moment, then exchanged a glance and laughed. "Well, what a coincidence!"

Just now, the giant eagle riders flying in the air to guard the surroundings discovered a figure sneaking around on the outskirts, peeking into the oasis.

So the giant eagle rider swooped down and grabbed the sneaky guy, who was a young human, probably only a teenager.

Before Jie Liancheng and Zhou Chongshan even got close, an excited, almost noisy voice entered their ears.

"You are just like me, aren't you?"

"Where are you from?"

What was that big bird all about?

"..."

The soldier from the Trapped Camp responsible for watching the enemy looked pained.

This kid is too noisy.

Since just now, a whole host of questions have been coming at us non-stop.

In this state, upon seeing Xie Liancheng and Zhou Chongshan approaching, the soldier's spirits visibly lifted.

"General!"

Although the noisy boy didn't know what a 'general' was, the two men who walked over had a much stronger presence than the soldiers around them, and for a moment, his eyes were filled with curiosity as he looked them up and down.

Looking at the curious boy in front of them, Xie Liancheng and Zhou Chongshan couldn't help but exchange a glance, with Xie Liancheng even raising his eyebrows.

Should we say that a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger?
Or is it that this kid hasn't seen other humans in a long time and is just too excited? He's not afraid of them at all.

In a way, this is a good thing.

"You used to live here?"

"how do you know?!"

The boy looked surprised, then his expression turned resentful.

"We all used to live here, but then those damned snake people came, took over our homes, and killed many of us..."

The kid's story was basically as they had guessed before, so the two of them weren't surprised at all.

Incidentally, this kid noticed that a large number of snake people had escaped from here, so he came over to see what had happened.

Just as they were saying this, a soldier from the Trapped Camp rode a warhorse and led a strange-looking creature over from a distance.

"Hutch!"

Upon seeing the creature being led over by the Trapped Camp soldiers, the young man's expression clearly changed, and he rushed over with a tense look on his face.

"this is mine!"

Ignoring the loudmouth, the soldier from the Vanguard quickly began his report...

"The creature was hidden behind a sand dune not far away."

Listening to the soldier's report and looking at the loud and boisterous young man, Xie Liancheng burst out laughing.

"Good heavens, you actually have a camel?"

What was being led to the crowd was a camel.

Upon hearing Jie Liancheng reveal Hachi's identity, the young man glanced at him with surprise, but at the same time, he didn't forget to protect the camel behind him, fearing that it might be snatched away.

(End of this chapter)