The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

When the caravan stopped and began to build the fortifications, Leo's pack cart also became part of the fortifications under command, and its position happened to be right next to the convoy where the child was.

After setting up the pack animals, the owner of the pack cart jumped onto the cart and hid in the tent, and erected the wooden planks inside the tent to defend against arrows, adding a little defense, and picked up the guns hidden in the cart. A pair of old bows and crossbows inside, sitting nervously near the entrance, looking out.

While nervously checking the situation outside, he also told Leo the news he had found out, and was worried that Leo didn't know about the Sand Bandit Owl, so he also told some information about the owl in detail.

This owl is not only the name of a sand bandit group, but also the name of a person. No one knows what this person's original name was, but it can be seen from the brand on his body that he should have been a slave.

The outside world does not know how Xiao went from being a slave to a sand bandit leader. The tribes of Savile only know that Xiao was very bold in his first attack. taxes.

This time the looting alarmed the kingdom, and the kingdom immediately dispatched troops to cooperate with the rangers from various western city-states to encircle and suppress its gang. As a result, Xiao led his subordinates to play around, not only losing troops, but even the special envoy of the kingdom died in Dagus desert.

From then on, Xiao's reputation spread throughout the entire Savile Kingdom, and Xiao became a representative of the Sand Pirates group in the Great Goss Desert. In the ten years that followed, he escaped the siege from the kingdom and the tribe countless times, and grew stronger and stronger, almost becoming the uncrowned king of the Great Gus Desert.

However, owls rarely come to the Little Gus Desert to plunder, because the Little Gus Desert is too small, only one-tenth the size of the Great Gus Desert. If not, they have nowhere to hide.

After the owner of the pack cart described Xiao Xiao's information, he analyzed again: "I guess this may not be Xiao Xiao's main force, but just one of their teams that came out to hunt wild food. With our number and defense here, as long as we don't mess up, There won't be much danger."

"It seems that you are not a simple packer owner!" Leo smiled after listening to the other party.

"You are not a simple car hire." The owner of the pack car said with a smile.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion outside, and then a group of neatly armored cavalry emerged from the original sand dune. Most of these cavalry were holding bows and arrows and spears, only a few Some people held mechanical crossbows in their hands. Although they looked like a lot of people, if you count them carefully, you can find that their number is only more than a hundred, which is only one-third of the caravan.

"Sure enough, it's a detachment." The owner of the pack cart raised his head, looked carefully at the scene outside, then retracted, and said, "However, it's hard to deal with! These guys are the detachment that was given the flag."

"The team that handed the flag?" Leo looked at the owner of the cart with some puzzlement.

"That guy Xiao is worried that his subordinates will be too big, so when the number of his subordinates increases to a certain number, he will forcibly separate out the extra people, award the flag, and become an independent team." The owner of the cart replied seriously. : "These guys are different from the guys who just joined and were incorporated into the team. They are veterans who have really seen blood and know how to catch prey."

Leo said with a smile: "You used to be Xiao Xiao's person too, right?"

The owner of the cart didn't answer Leo's words, as if he didn't hear him.

At this time, the sand bandits outside stood on the dune overlooking the caravan's camp, turned their horses, and left from the dune one after another, feeling as if they felt that they could not take down the caravan, so they gave up the plunder.

In the caravan, after seeing this scene, many people had the same thought, and then heaved a sigh of relief. Some even cheered softly, as if they had won a tough battle.

"Idiot! Those guys are just playing with their prey!" The pack owner said with a look of disdain after hearing the soft cheers outside.

Although the vast majority of people in the caravan believed that the crisis had passed, there were still some people who knew that things were not that simple.

The head of the caravan ordered two of his men to go out to check on the situation, and the two had just left the camp and rode pack animals up to the sand dune, when they saw more than a dozen arrows shot from behind the sand dune and instantly pierced the two of them. The two men were killed instantly.

Then I saw a sand bandit riding a pack beast emerge from behind the sand dunes, casually looked at the caravan camp, and then took away the two pack animals that had lost their owners, leaving only two corpses Lie down on the dunes.

At this moment, the camp fell silent, and no one made a sound, and an almost frozen atmosphere surrounded the caravan.

"What a bunch of idiots. Since we already know the number of the opponents, we should concentrate our forces and rush out to fight the opponents. The longer the passive defense like this is delayed, the more disadvantageous it will be." The owner of the pack cart looked at the situation in the camp and endured He couldn't help cursing, and then he turned his head to look at the small team of followers outside the camp, and said in a low voice, "I hope the worst situation doesn't happen!"

"Do you think there are sand bandits among those people?" Leo asked in a deep voice.

The owner of the cart said solemnly, "I hope not."

"It's a pity that your hope is about to come to nothing." Leo shook his head, he had already sensed all the movements around him through the spiritual network, and naturally he was very clear about what happened in that small team now.

When the owner of the cart heard Leo's words, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and didn't understand the meaning of Leo's words for a while.

Leo didn't explain either, and said, "Get ready! Their first wave of attack is about to begin."

Almost as soon as Leo's words fell, a sound of pack animals stepping on the sand came from the direction of the sand dunes, and then the team of sand robbers reappeared, quickly approaching the caravan camp, and then arrived at the caravan When the camp's bow and arrow can reach the limit position, it is divided into two parts, and moves quickly around the caravan camp, and when moving again, it keeps pulling the bow and shooting arrows towards the camp.

Just as the owner of the pack cart said, these sand robbers are veterans, and the same is true in the use of bows and arrows. Several rounds of bows and arrows suppressed the caravan and made it impossible to fight back. A few people tried to fight back, and they became the target of the arrows just as they appeared. , With such a precedent, others dare not come out of hiding.

After several rounds of attacks, the sand bandits reunited in one place, returned to the dune again, looked down at the caravan already filled with arrows, turned around and went down to the other side of the dune.

Although it was already known that the Sand Pirates had retreated, no one in the caravan camp dared to look outside to check the situation, and even if only a few people died, the caravan itself was not injured, but the overall morale of the caravan was hit to the bottom .

At this time, the trailing small team on the other side suddenly moved towards this side. Those who discovered this immediately became vigilant and warned others.

Although the people in the caravan were a bit powerless against those battle-tested sand bandits, they were still very heroic in dealing with these small caravans trailing behind them. While shouting to them to stop, they aimed their bows and arrows at them.

However, soon the guards of the caravan felt that their hard work was too much, because the group of people they faced were old, weak, sick and disabled, and many of them were shot by arrows. Being able to be carried by his companions, dying, presumably because the group of sand robbers just now saw that they could not break through the caravan's camp, and vented their anger on these people.

"Stop!" When the group of people had arrived very close to the camp, a guard on the roof shouted loudly, and pointed the weapon in his hand at those people.

"We pray for asylum, and I pray for asylum according to the law of asylum." The man who led the team put down all the weapons in his hand, then stepped forward a few steps, and shouted into the camp.

Hearing the call, the leader in charge of the guard also knew that this matter was beyond his control, so he signaled those people to stay still, and then went to find someone who could take care of it.

In one of the pack carts used as fortifications, Leo sat leisurely on the soft blanket and asked the pack cart owner nervously looking out, "What is the law of protection?"

The owner of the cart said: "The law of asylum is that if you are in danger of life and death in the desert, you can ask other passing tribes for help, and the passing tribes cannot turn a blind eye."

"So what does the help-seeker need to pay?" Leo asked again.

"It's very simple. All the belongings of the rescuer will belong to the rescuer, and the rescuer must also serve as a slave under the rescuer for three years. If he dies within these three years, the rescuer does not need to bear any responsibility." The owner of the car explained: "This is a very harsh law. If it is not really on the verge of life and death, no one will ask to implement the asylum law." Then, he turned his head to look at Leo and asked: "You Do you think there is a problem with those people?"

Leo smiled, but didn't answer.

However, the owner of the cart had already guessed what Leo was thinking, so he asked suspiciously: "Since you already know there is a problem, why didn't you remind them?"

Leo responded indifferently: "Why should I remind them? If I remember correctly, I have already paid the money and given up the car to deliver the goods to them. I should have fulfilled my obligation. Now they Completed the obligation to protect us."

At this time, the head of the caravan had already reached the edge of the defensive position, and he was also hesitating whether to accept these people.

Because of the sand bandits' attack just now, the high-level caravans who were confident that they could survive the next round of attacks were at a loss. Now that someone is joining them to supplement their manpower, it is a good thing no matter what, but they Some worried that these people were actually Sand Bandits. Once these people were allowed to enter the camp, if the Sand Bandits cooperated with each other, the defense of the camp would collapse, and the consequences would be disastrous.

And just when the caravan supervisor was hesitating whether to accept these people, the sand robbers appeared on the sand dunes again, but this time they no longer went to the caravan wall, but to those who prayed for asylum. Small caravan survivors.

When they found that the sand bandits were attacking, the survivors of the small caravan panicked. They wanted to escape but they couldn't run far, and a large number of arrows were shot at them.

At this time, in order to sign up, some of those who carried their injured companions had to use their companions as shields to block the incoming arrows, and survived the arrow rain of the sand robbers themselves.

These sand thieves also seemed to be taking the survivors of the small caravan lying on the ground as some kind of prey for playing. After shooting the first round of arrow rain, they turned their horses and returned to the sand dunes, disappearing to the other side.

At this time, the survivors of the small caravan climbed up from under the arrow-strewn corpses of their companions. There were about eighty or ninety survivors. After a round of massacres, there were only less than forty survivors left. , and half of them were wounded, it seemed that they had no fighting power.

Seeing that these survivors were already like this, the head of the caravan felt that it would not be a problem to take them in, and decided in his heart that after these people came in, he would disperse them all into different teams, and wait for the official war with the Sand Pirates. When the time comes, send these people out first.

Just when the head of the caravan was about to let someone open a hole in the fortification of the convoy and let these people in, the owner of the pack car hired by Leo hurried over and shouted: "Don't let them in, they are all It's Sand Bandit!"

Hearing the voice of the owner of the pack cart, the caravan supervisor didn't believe it at first, but the survivors outside the cart thought they had been exposed, so they took out a delicate crossbow from under their robes and pointed at the guards on the cart. Shot it.

The head of the caravan was the first to bear the brunt of being shot by nearly ten arrows, and one of them was shot into his brain, killing him on the spot. Several guards instinctively became vigilant when they heard the warning, and acted They didn't go out to hide, so they were only slightly injured.

The movement here also alarmed other people around, and those guards came to support one after another, and the sand bandits outside the convoy, who pretended to be survivors, had no time to re-line the crossbow and arrow after a round of attacks, and They were all completely exposed to people, and there was no place to hide. After the guards in the car scattered at a height below zero, nearly forty sand robbers all fell to the ground.

The battle here had just ended, and the sand bandits who had retreated before appeared on the sand dunes over there again. They looked at the corpses of their companions lying on the ground, and all of them stayed where they were.

The atmosphere suddenly froze at this moment, and everyone in the convoy thought that these sand robbers would finally become angry because of the death of their companions and launch the most violent attack.

But after a while, something that surprised everyone happened. One of the leading sand robbers suddenly waved his arm, and then the entire sand robber team turned around and disappeared on the sand dunes again.

Although there is no clue to prove it at this moment, everyone in the convoy agreed that the sand robbers should have left and they were all safe.