Lux's Magic Penetration Rod

Although their bodies had reached their limits, after seeing the roaring river, all the Shurima people fell into extreme excitement.

Water is the source of life, and the Shurima people who were born in the desert know this better than anyone else.

With water, there is everything; with oasis, there is a future.

Compared with the invisible river in front of us, the oasis at the starting point of the Shurima tribe can only be regarded as a small pond with a fence!

The figures of Kalya and Setaka quickly disappeared into the waves, entangled together and moving downstream with the water. Seeing this, other Shuriman people also came to the river, leaned down and started drinking happily. .

There were camels drinking water with the Shuriman people, and the remaining thirty-one Skalas also wanted to come over to drink water, but considering their habit of going up and down, the riders could only hold on tightly. Their reins prevent them from polluting the sweet river water.

After a chaotic quarter of an hour, when Kalya and Setaka ran back from the downstream with swollen lips, the Shuriman people were almost full of water, and by the way, they also filled their own water containers, and they were extremely anxious. Scarash finally came to the river bank, half-knelt down, and began to drink happily.

While Scarash drank gulps of water, the packs behind them were unloaded one after another, and the Shurima tribe began to prepare a temporary camp.

The Shurimans need some fixing.

The nearly forty days of trekking in the desert had almost exhausted everyone's physical reserves. After the temporary camp had achieved initial results and the excitement had passed, everyone couldn't help but collapsed in the camp. Under such circumstances, even getting up to cook is a task that tests your willpower extremely.

The Shuriman people who had eaten and drank enough had no intention of celebrating. When night fell, except for the night watchman named by Setaka, everyone lay down impatiently in the camp on the river bank, shouting loudly. Fell asleep.

A night of silence.

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The next morning, when the Shuriman people woke up from their sleep, the fatigue and pain accumulated in the past seemed to have completely exploded after a good night's sleep.

Almost everyone feels that they have backache, leg pain, and general discomfort.

Fortunately, since there are enough Scarash and there are rivers, the amount of supplies the tribe needs to carry will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, after a brief discussion, a seriously injured Scarash was slaughtered, and Setaka announced in public that the tribe would repair here for three days, and then move forward along the river to find a place that can be used as a permanent camp. Time to settle in.

Hearing what the eldest sister said, the Shurima people let out a sigh of relief. After gritting their teeth and determined to get out of the sea of ​​death, the energy was gone. Now everyone indeed has no strength at all. It's better to take a rest. Good thing.

Unfortunately, the Shurima people wanted to repair it, but someone refused to let them.

On the evening of the second day when the Shurima people were resting in the temporary camp, the soldiers on guard sent word that they saw a small boat in the upper reaches of the river - there were people on the small boat, but after the other party saw him from a distance, He left against the current.

Setaka just nodded after hearing the news; but Kalya immediately asked everyone to be on guard.

"Everyone hasn't recovered yet." Setaka didn't understand Karya's request. "Just stay vigilant. We have discovered them."

"This is not our hometown." Kalya shook his head, "Surviving in the desert is very difficult, so the tribes will be more united and often ignore people outside the tribe - but here it is not Likewise, compared to the environment in the center of the desert, what is more dangerous here may be the human heart."

Setaka was doubtful about Kalya's words, but she still issued an order asking everyone to prepare for battle.

Then, as the sky gradually darkened, a long line of shadowy figures lined up in the upstream direction, taking advantage of the darkness to approach the Shurima tribe's temporary camp.

Most of the Shuriman people who eat all kinds of food do not suffer from night blindness. Under the hazy moonlight, they can still clearly see the bright weapons in the hands of these uninvited guests. Under the sound of roaring waves, the faint clang of chains echoes. Voice.

Shurima was not very clear about the purpose of these strangers, but Kalya couldn't help but narrowed his eyes.

As these people arrived within a hundred steps of the Shuriman temporary camp, the torches were lit one after another - then they shouted in a language that the Shuriman people did not understand, and began to shout towards the Shuriman temporary camp. shouted.

Along with the shouts, there was also a wave of twisted arrows arriving at the camp.

It is almost impossible to hit the target with a bow and an arrow in the dark night, but the goal of these people is not to kill in the first place - all the arrows are filled with fire. Their purpose from the beginning is to destroy Shurima Temporary Camp!

When the rockets fell from the sky, many Shuriman people were stunned.

Those things that were ignited were the wealth accumulated by the tribe's hard work. Shurima still needs to rely on these things to build its own city!

Scarash was frightened and in urgent need of comfort. Some supplies and tents were set on fire and needed to be extinguished. The temporary camp seemed to be in brief chaos.

But after all, the Shurima tribe was born as mercenaries. With Setaka's order, the originally chaotic situation quickly calmed down.

Those who could fight left the camp and took the initiative to face the strangers; the rest put out fires in the camp, comforted their mounts, and minimized losses.

As Setaka led the people out of the camp, the torches in the distance finally swayed.

Accompanied by a few dissatisfied tuts and unbridled ridicule, these people extinguished their torches without hesitation and turned around to leave.

Setaka led the team in pursuit but was unable to catch up. Considering that the night was getting darker, she had no choice but to return.

So, when the Shurima people finally extinguished the fire and calmed Scarash, the figures of these people had completely disappeared into the night.

After this incident, the Shurima people finally couldn't sleep anymore. There was a question in everyone's mind that they couldn't figure out no matter how hard they thought about it.

Why are they attacking us for no reason?

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"This is our only gain." Setaka handed a rope to Kalya and asked Kalya the question in his mind, "Can you identify the identities of these people? Why did they come over and try to set fire?"

"First of all, we don't know each other at all, and we don't even understand the language." Kalya did not answer immediately, but squinted his eyes and gave his own judgment, "What drives them to actively attack us cannot be hatred."

Setaka nodded.

"Secondly, although this is a river bank and there is a lot of fertile land around it, we have seen it all before. No crops have been planted or cultivated." Kalya continued, "There is not even anything iconic here. Even if we do enter the territory of a certain force, we should not attack directly."

Setaka nodded again.

"It's not hatred, it's not territory, the most likely thing is wealth." Kalya's voice gradually cooled down, "But they use rockets as soon as they come up. The flames will burn the supplies and scare the mounts. If their purpose is for us to carry of wealth, the flames will only greatly reduce their harvest."

Setaka continued to nod.

"However, in addition to mounts and supplies, the Shurima tribe also has a valuable asset." Kalya gradually gritted his teeth, "That is people."

"people?"

Setaka blinked, completely unable to understand what Kalya meant.

What kind of wealth is a human being?

Most of the people in Shurima are abandoned wanderers in the desert!

"This is not a big desert!" Kalya obviously understood Setaka's doubts. "The oasis can't support too many people, so more people are sometimes a burden; but along the banks of this big river, how many people do you want to support? , no problem!”

Setaka still didn't understand. Her fixed thinking made it difficult for her to understand the meaning of slaves and slavery. After all, in the depths of the desert, it was already the limit to feed the tribesmen. No one had the spare resources to feed the slaves. .

For this reason, Kalya simply changed his statement.

"How many people do you know in the great desert who capture and tame wild Skalas?"

"No one will capture Sklash." Setaka shook his head, "Too many Sklash cannot be fed, and wild Sklash is difficult to tame."

"But if there was a Skalaush by the river now, would you catch it?"

"Of course." Setaka nodded, "How many Sklash can be fed here...wait, you mean?"

"That's right, maybe in the eyes of these people, we are just those wild Skalas." Kalya's face was as deep as water. "With this river, how many people can afford it, so why not catch some outsiders?" , how about raising them to work for you?”

"..."

Setaka was silent for a long time.

The change in the environment made her a little confused at first, but as Kalya pointed out the key, she quickly realized the problem - many of the actions of these strangers were very strange, but if their purpose from the beginning was to capture Shuriman, then it all makes sense.

"How could they do this?!" Setaka was furious, "These despicable river people!"

Apparently, the Rivermen were the name Setaka gave these raiders casually.

"This is the most likely and worst case scenario." Kalya shrugged, "You should be lenient if you anticipate the enemy. If this is the case, I think they will not act rashly during the day."

"Those despicable Dahe people certainly don't dare to attack head-on during the day!"

"So, we may be able to make some preparations during the day." Kalya reached out and touched the stubble on his chin, and the expression on his face looked a bit uncertain under the light of the fire, " At least give them a hard slap and catch a few tongues!"

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During the day of the next day, just as Kalya said, those people did not appear again - there was only a small boat in the lower reaches of the river, looking in the direction of the camp from a distance. As soon as the sentry ran towards them, they quickly turned around and left.

The speed of going down the river was so fast that even if the sentry was riding Scarash, he would not be able to catch up in a short time.

And it seems that because they didn't get a good rest last night, many people in the Shurima temporary camp were sleeping in a mess and looked miserable.

Then, as night fell, the river men appeared again.

They were still about a hundred paces away from Shurima's temporary camp before lighting torches and unfurling their bows and arrows again.

However, before their rockets could be fired this time, these people were shocked to find that a shallow trench had appeared not far away from them. When they were setting their bows and arrows, many people He had already jumped out of it and stabbed him with a spear!

Obviously during the day of investigation, no fortifications were built here!

(The lying Scarash is a perfect barrier. It is safe for boats on the river to detect, but due to the distance, many things are not visible clearly - for example, they are completely invisible when digging a trench behind Scarlash. .)

Unfortunately, at this moment, these people no longer bothered to curse the spies for their poor performance. Faced with the thrust of spears within ten steps, they dropped their bows and arrows, threw away their torches, turned around and ran away.

The Shurima people also gave up as soon as they were ready. They had no intention of pursuing them at all. They just grabbed a few injured and unlucky ones with weak legs and feet, tied them up with the ropes around their waists, and pressed them back. In the camp.

The good news for these captives is that at least these "savages" don't eat people, they just want to get some useful information from their mouths.

The bad news is that due to the language barrier between the two parties, no matter how much they cooperate, they may still suffer a lot.

Kalya is also considered a professional in interrogation.

Kalya’s Little Classroom·Big River People:

Because of this attack, in the cultural system of Shurima, "River People" has become a term to describe despicable people - the River Nomads from whom Drizzt was born are a group of people who are despised in Shurima. fraud.

In addition, because of Kalya, Shurima has had a lot of conflicts with slavery from the beginning, so it is conceivable that after the Icathian War, when the empire chose to reverse course in order to maintain its size, Shurima How inevitable is the disintegration of...