Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland.

Chapter 645: Strangeness (Combined Chapter)
The warrior with the scar on his face was named Su Cheng. He didn't know why he had such an impulse that was not in line with his nature... Perhaps the strange premonition he had while waiting before played a big part in the reason.

For someone like him who has experienced life and death, sometimes what he can really rely on is not the ordinary senses of sight and hearing, but the whim of his heart.

This premonition has saved Su Cheng many times on the battlefield.

However, those experiences in the past were not as difficult to distinguish as today.

Seeing his client take another step back, Su Cheng heaved a sigh of relief and his opinion of Shi Cha changed slightly:
He didn't know the situation in the Southern United City, but from his own experience, in the various city-states in the north, as the situation changed, there were many cases where noble lords and sons had their families destroyed and even their lives destroyed because of their momentary arrogance.

It can be said that it is not uncommon.

The traditional aristocratic forces in the Southern United City are even more stubborn. There is a clear distinction between the nobles, commoners, slaves... and there is a huge force of attendants to maintain this system. It seems that the people in high positions will act more unscrupulously and have nothing to fear.

Shi Cha is an exception among them.

No wonder he was able to make a fortune in the north after leaving Kaiton City.

The leader of the Chamber of Commerce brought out a small stool and sat down on the spot, but a large number of servants immediately gathered around him, holding the disassembled parts and assembling them around Shi Cha.

Gradually, a military tent with gorgeous patterns was set up directly above his head.

Block the sand and cool breeze.

Shi Cha picked up a leather bag and took a sip, then began to wash himself with the poured water. The curtain in front of him left an empty wall, which was just right for him to take in the scene within his sight.

Meeting here means that the other person is going to the depression lagoon just like me.

I just wonder if they will eventually go to their hometown, or... that sad mining town?

Shi Cha shook his head and made a judgment based on his business experience:
Ai Mining Town is a little unlikely. Although the town still maintains the style of a city-state on the surface, it is no different from a ruin on the inside. The goods of this team of herdsmen and merchants are pack animals, and the people of Ai Mining Town don't need these... They no longer produce fine steel ore. Even Kaiton City has to buy raw materials from other places. Ai Mining Town now has no goods worth transporting. It is said that the pack animals of the original caravan that should be slaughtered and shared have already been slaughtered.

It would be better to sell some food.

The only value of Ai Mine Town now is probably the solid wall outside it that has not completely collapsed. It can still shelter one or two people inside when a beast disaster comes, and some caravans may also settle there.

So, they are on the same path as me...

"Half a day..." Shi Cha calculated, "It should be enough."

The rest of the warriors were already exhausted, only Su Cheng was wearing armor and carrying a sword on his back, walking slowly around the perimeter of the post station, leaving behind a series of footprints and the crisp sounds of armor colliding.

He looked at the collapsed ruins of bones.

While sighing in my heart.

It was the first time that he had seen such a huge corpse of an ancient beast. The remaining skeleton alone was so magnificent that it surpassed the noble mansions of some lords. Most of the place was collapsed ruins, inaccessible, piled up like hills. The drifters could only use a small part of it.

The largest creature left today is the giant beast Leviathan, which lives in the extreme northwest of the continent. Because they almost live together with the cannibalistic painted tribes, not many adventurers have gone deep into their territory... As for the rest of the places, it is said that someone has found traces of Leviathan in this equally wild wasteland of bones, so much so that Emperor Tengu once ordered warriors to look for and capture it.

The southern cities reacted extremely nervously to this, thinking that Long En was again trying to extend his hand into their sphere of influence in the name of the emperor, otherwise he would not have issued such a costly and unreasonable order.

You know, an elder-stage beaked beast is already a giant beast, and its long neck is enough to climb over the high walls of a city-state like a ladder. But a Leviathan can directly crush a city-state to the ground.

As the emperor, Tengu nominally possessed the most elite warrior corps in the entire empire, but just relying on them to capture such a giant beast...

Are you kidding me?
However, the sword-wielding nobles in the south were busy for a while, but in the end they did not expect that the order was actually true and there was no conspiracy.

This made them even more angry.

Su Cheng looked at the skeleton of the ancient behemoth up close, and thought that with such relics there, even if there was no Leviathan in the Skeleton Wasteland, it was no wonder that people, even the emperor of the empire, believed such rumors so credulously.

"Shassha..."

The warrior was suddenly stunned and heard a panting and growling sound in his ears. The hair on his back stood on end and he drew out his broad-bladed long sword.

This was a trophy captured from the Holy Kingdom. It was a combat cleaver. Although its quality was not very high, it might get scratched if it bumped against the swords of its companions, but Su Cheng didn't care.

On the war zone.

The knife doesn't have to be sharp, as long as it can cut through the bones in the neck.

And, just like people.

As long as the knife is cheap enough.

It doesn’t hurt to use it.

What Su Cheng was nervous about was: although he was walking and watching leisurely, the habit he developed on the battlefield was still there. Even if his mind was not on defense, it was impossible for him to let something approach without knowing it.

In this wasteland of bones, the sound of animals was heard again...

How can I make him less nervous?

Sure enough, looking in the direction of the blade, he saw a slender and strong bone wolf crouching down and slowly approaching him, its cheeks bulging with every breath, revealing its terrifying fangs.

Boneyard wolf?

But it is not brown-red, but gray-black.

Before Su Cheng could react, the bone wolf leaped out and instantly crossed a distance of seven or eight meters, as if it was taking off into the air.

The incident happened suddenly, and the muscles in the warrior's arms were knotted. Without time to think, he swung his sword back and chopped forward. The strong wind he created blew away the sand and dust on the ground, as if a circle of pure land was formed.

Although the beast was terrifying, Su Cheng was not afraid at all... But the next moment, with a clanging sound, he felt his wrist go numb, and a force pushed from the side, directly knocking his sword away.

boom!
The broad cleaver hit the ground. Su Cheng was stunned for a moment, then he immediately reacted and turned to look at the direction where the force came from.

I saw a tall man wearing an iron hat standing aside, holding a saber in one hand.

Just about to sheath.

Just now, he thrust his long sword and it hit the weak spot of Su Cheng's attack, directly deflecting the entire sword's momentum.

He did not use much force, as if he did it casually, relying mainly on the warrior's own strength. However, this also caused Su Cheng's strength to stagnate and his throat to become choked, as if he had swallowed something that was stuck and could not spit it out, which was very uncomfortable.

"What are you doing!"

Su Cheng looked angry.

He was in danger and was about to kill the wolf. Anyone who came out to stop him was almost the same as an enemy...

The swordsman spread out his hand and pointed.

Su Cheng suddenly realized that although the force of his sword was blocked, the bone wolf just pounced straight at him... but did not reach him?
He quickly looked in the direction the swordsman indicated.

He saw that the nimble bone wolf had already landed about five or six meters behind him, and was now grinning at the bone wall of the post station.

"It probably has its eyes on this bone." Lu Meng put the long knife back into the leather sheath and cursed with a smile, "I don't think it has ever been hungry before."

Xiaogu's pupils were completely occupied by the thick skeleton of the giant beast. How could there be any shadow of other people or objects?
At this moment, Shashasha was so excited that saliva flowed out of his mouth and fell to the ground.

He didn't care about Su Cheng at all.

"Sorry, is this your dog?" Su Cheng realized the misunderstanding and saluted with his knife.

But then he realized... the dog jumped directly over his head...?
It also spanned a distance of more than ten meters.

I'm afraid even the wild wolves are not so agile.

"Yes, a mountain dog breed."

Lu Meng nodded.

Su Cheng immediately understood: It is said that top mountain dogs are good at stealth hunting, so they can approach him quietly, and they are not only agile, but also smarter than ordinary dog ​​breeds...

"Ooooooooooooooooo!"

I saw Xiaogu biting the ribs of the fossilized giant beast. It had a bloody mouth and its fangs penetrated the shell and nailed to the bone, and then... it got stuck.

The bone wolf was stunned. It was hanging in the air by itself. It twisted its body wildly and let out a terrified whimper.

Su Cheng: “…”

Although the opponent's target was only the smaller one among the ribs of the skeleton, it came from a giant beast after all, and stood there like a natural round column. Although its teeth were sharp, its upper and lower jaws were not long enough, so how could it possibly bite it open?

Feel and legendary mountain dog IQ.

Not quite consistent.

"Stupid dog." Lu Meng pressed his forehead helplessly, walked forward to hug Xiaogu and help it get away.

He knew the reason.

Apparently, after Xiaogu left the white wolf state, he had not yet fully adapted to his original body size and still thought he was the giant wolf.

That can be bitten off in one bite.

But if that was really the case, Lu Meng would not let Xiaogu play around. After all, letting it tear down the house and take things away was no joke.

Su Cheng was also amused by the big dog's silly behavior and smiled. He quickly put away his knife and rushed over to help support Xiaogu's hind legs to prevent its teeth from being pulled out by its own weight.

After a busy period, with the combined efforts of the two, Xiaogu was "rescued" and landed on the ground.

Xiaogu snored, sneezed, and then ran away.

slip away.

It's so embarrassing.

Besides, the bones are full of stone powder, without any of the marrow that I love...

Looking at its back, Lu Meng smiled, pulled down his hat and prepared to slowly catch up.

"Sir." Su Cheng held the knife upside down and clasped his fists towards him. "Are you the guard of this herdsman?"

After the episode of rescuing the dog, the warrior recalled the scene just now, and he felt more and more savored in his heart... The other party's attempt to stop him seemed casual, but if you savored it carefully, it was extremely exquisite.

Whether it was the timing and strength of his attack, or his control of his sword moves.

All just right.

As a warrior who excels in swordsmanship, Su Cheng naturally knows that there will be flaws in his swordplay, but at their level, they already know how to play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, and cleverly hide their empty doors in hidden places.

Ordinary opponents cannot detect it at all.

Although he thought at first that he was dealing with a ferocious beast and was unprepared, which increased his chances of being taken advantage of...but judging from the results, Su Cheng still admired this swordsman.

At least much better than his colleagues.

Judging from the other party's attire, he also has a dog that guards the house, trains animals and herds sheep.

Su Cheng was thinking in his heart.

With his strength, even if he is a guard, he should be a leader among them.

"Guardian..." Lu Meng said, "You could say that."

Seeing that the other party agreed vaguely and seemed unwilling to discuss in depth, Su Cheng did not care. Instead, he hesitated for a moment and said, "Do you feel that... is there something wrong with this post station?"

He recalled his previous premonition again.

That feeling of crisis when looking ahead, as if even your own life is threatened.

It's like a battlefield.

"Something's wrong?" Lu Meng answered casually, "Nothing."

If the mission and secret of this group of people were revealed... then from the outside it would seem that nothing is right, nothing is normal.

If people knew.

He is standing right here...

Something is really wrong.

"Is that so..." Su Cheng was a little disappointed. It seemed that the other party didn't notice anything unusual.

Judging from his strength, he also has an understanding of swordsmanship.

Perhaps they were just like ordinary caravan guards. They had experienced very few fights, and even if they had, they were only with roadside robbers. Therefore, their premonition of a real life-and-death crisis was not as strong as mine...

"If that's the case, then it's fine." Su Cheng sighed slightly, but didn't take it to heart. He just clasped his fists again and reminded: "But you still have to be careful when walking in the Skeleton Wasteland. At least rest in peace when you reach the lagoon..."

The warrior did not intend to express his unique premonition and perception: he felt that he had done his best to be able to do this to the people from a strange caravan, whom he had just met by chance.

Both sides may be heading in the same direction, but in the wasteland, the vigilance between these two teams may be the deepest.

It is impossible to travel together.

So Su Cheng understood what the other party meant when they said they would set out overnight in half a day - in addition to mediating the conflict, it was also a warning to their side to stay at this Skeleton Station on their way.

Don't think about tracking.

Both sides need to keep their distance.

"Of course." Lu Meng returned the greeting.

Su Cheng nodded, turned around and said goodbye. For this warrior, after realizing that the other party was not his "fellow traveler", he no longer had any intention of continuing to chat and make friends with him.

However, when Lu Meng passed by him, her keen senses noticed that Su Cheng behind her turned his wrist slightly, and judging by the amplitude and force... it seemed as if he was unconsciously recalling the movement of swinging the knife.

Lu Meng smiled and said nothing.

Let it go.

On the other side, the noble caravan settled down. The boss Tang Darui invited several key figures to the post station for dinner. Shi Cha half-reluctantly walked into the huge mouth of the beast.

(End of this chapter)