The subsequent development of the matter did not seem to be guessed by Li Zhen. After two days of camping, the group of men in black never came again. This incident was like a strange huge rock seen on the road. It first aroused everyone's interest, but it was soon forgotten by everyone.

On the third day, the caravan set out again northward and headed to Gaochang City hundreds of miles away. On the way, they had to cross the sandy mountains and then walk through a vast desert before finally reaching Gaochang.

Although the sand mountains are towering and steep, and the top of the mountain is covered with snow, they can pass through the huge valley without any effort. Instead, they feel a little cool in the hot summer and the cold and icy gurgling mountain springs. In summer, it is very pleasant to cross the sand mountains.

But the most painful thing is walking through the vast desert. Even if they head north along the Gobi on the edge of the desert, the scorching and heat that fell from the sky made them almost breathless.

It was not until this time that Li Zhen and the others understood why Uncle Ban suggested that they not ride horses. The caravan did not walk in the center of the desert, but went to the edge of Gobi. It was not impossible to ride horses, but what affected the horses was not the terrain, but the weather.

The weather was so hot that the horses could no longer bear it, so they had to use a few buckets of ice water poured on the sandy mountains to continuously cool down the horses.

In the afternoon, they finally arrived at a small oasis with water and a few unknown big trees, and a little shade to rest the horses who were about to be heatstroke.

The man and the horse drank a lot, and then Uncle Ban came over to the four of them and said, "We have discussed that your horses can't leave anymore, so we rest during the day and set off again at night, and it will not be so hot at night."

Li Zhen knew that they were in a hurry to go and would not stop and rest. This was all for them. He said gratefully: "Thank you for your care!"

Uncle Ban patted Li Zhen on the shoulder and smiled: "Next time, remember, don't go to the south road when riding a horse. It would be better to go to the north road. You must ride a camel when walking the south road."

"I remember."

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The weather was too hot, and everyone rushed to sleep and accumulated energy for walking at night. Li Zhen also fell asleep under a big tree.

At about dusk, he woke up unexpectedly. It was not because the team was about to set off, but because of a strong sense of uneasiness that made him wake up. He sat up and looked around and faintly heard someone shouting in the distance.

Li Zhen suddenly stood up and ran towards the shouting place with his bow and arrow and long sword. He heard the sound that seemed to be Jiuzhi.

About two hundred steps away from the oasis, more than a dozen black horse riders surrounded Jiuzhi. Jiuzhi drank too much ice water because of his greed for coolness and ended up having diarrhea. He had just run to the place where no one could help but found more than a dozen black horse riders.

"I have no grudges and grudges with you, and I have never seen any local monks. Why are you so struggling with each other?"

The Scarface, who was in charge of the leader, was Lan Zhenyu who taught scholars to use medicine in Dunhuang. He had a secret mission to pursue a Tocharian monk who disappeared in the Shashan area, which made him anxious.

Along the way, he only met this caravan. He suspected that the Tocharian monks were hiding in this caravan. However, the caravan was too big and he didn't want to alert the snake, so he followed him quietly. Unexpectedly, he was discovered by the diarrhea Jiuzhi.

Lan Zhenyu remembered the vicious words that Jiu Zhizi said by sword, and at the same time he did not want the caravan to find them following him, so Lan Zhenyu felt murderous intent in his heart.

Lan Zhenyu sneered and said, "Didn't you say that Suo Wen's sword technique was taught by a master who had no asshole? I'll let you see who has no asshole today!"

Lan Zhenyu slowly drew out the long sword, "Draw the sword!"

Jiuzhi had long forgotten what he said casually, but the scar face in front of him was obviously trying to kill him. He secretly took out a flying knife in his hand, but cursed: "I'm coming out to shit, not to compete with you. If you have the will of you, please let me go back and get the sword, see how I will kill you with one sword!"

Lan Zhenyu winked at his subordinates. His subordinate threw a long sword at Jiuzhi's feet, "Give you a sword, come on!"

Jiuzhi had a flying knife in his hand, so he would not pick up a sword. He was anxious and looked behind Lan Zhenyu and shouted: "Hey! The Tu Monk is right behind you!"

Lan Zhenyu turned around instinctively, and the flying knife in Jiuzhi's hand shot out like a cold light, directly reaching Lan Zhenyu's chest.

Lan Zhenyu was very skilled in martial arts. The moment he turned around, he realized that Jiu Zhi was diverting his sight. He swung his long sword quickly and slashed Jiu Zhi's flying knife with one sword.

Jiuzhi only had this flying knife on his body. When he saw the knife failing, he was so scared that he screamed and turned around and ran away. Lan Zhenyu did not chase him. He raised his hand and a short crossbow arrow shot out from his sleeve and shot strongly at Jiuzhi's back.

At this moment of lightning, an arrow shot like lightning, "Dang!", the crossbow arrow shot towards Jiuzhi in the middle, and the crossbow arrow was shot out.

Lan Zhenyu was shocked and suddenly turned his head. He saw a young man standing dozens of steps away, pulling his bow, and an arrow coldly aimed at him.

The person who came was Li Zhen. He decisively shot out the arrow at the most critical moment and saved Jiu Zhi's life.

Lan Zhenyu didn't expect that Li Zhen's archery skills were so clever that he could intercept his crossbow arrows. He had a hand crossbow hidden in his sleeve, and he also shot every shot at the enemy. Today was the first time he missed.

The two sides were stalemate for only a moment. Lan Zhenyu was afraid of Li Zhen's archery technique, so she waved her hand and ordered her subordinates to make way. Jiu Zhi rolled and crawled towards Li Zhen.

"Old Li, these people have been following us!"

Li Zhen glanced at the crossbow arrow that was shot by himself, and a trace of blue and dark light shone under the setting sun, which was obviously severely poisoned. He remembered Suo Wen's short sword, which should have been taught by this person, and this person was so vicious.

"What are you going to do?" Li Zhen asked coldly.

Lan Zhenyu snatched a shield from a subordinate, calmed down and no longer feared Li Zhen's magic arrow. He and his subordinates surrounded him from all sides. Li Zhen's archery technique was too clever, which made him jealous. If Li Zhen could not become his subordinate, he would take the opportunity to get rid of this young man today.

Lan Zhenyu said with a poisonous smile on her face: "I know you, you and Suo Wen competed with him in two moves. Your swordsmanship is good. I want to learn more. I wonder if Mr. Li is willing to give me advice?"

"Old Li, he wants to kill someone to silence him. Don't pay attention to him!"

Li Zhen knew that he was in trouble today. These dozen men in black were all masters of swordsmanship. This scarfaced man was even better. From his mountain-like aura when he held the sword, he knew that his swordsmanship was far from his opponent.

Li Zhen is good at riding and shooting, but he is slightly inferior in swordsmanship. On the one hand, his master's swordsmanship is not very high, and on the other hand, he devotes a lot of energy to shooting archery.

As for his defeat of So Wen in two moves, it can only mean that So Wen's swordsmanship is even worse, and now this Scarface is the real swordsman.

"Aren't you looking for a monk from Tochar? I've seen him." Li Zhen said with a faint smile.

This Tochar monk was too important to Lan Zhenyu. Although he didn't believe Li Zhen's words, he still didn't dare to be careless and shouted sternly: "Tell me where he is, I'll spare your life!"

"But I don't believe you!"

Lan Zhenyu gritted her teeth and said, "Kill all the others except this person!"

More than a dozen men in black rushed up with swords. Jiu Zhi had no weapons, so he screamed and turned around and ran away. Li Zhen also retreated anxiously.

At this moment, the sky suddenly darkened. The sunset was still in the sky just now, but in a blink of an eye, the sky became dark.

Everyone looked west and their faces were pale. They saw endless black clouds rising from the horizon from the southwest, covering the sky and the sun, and swooping towards them.

"The sandstorm is coming, run away!"

Lan Zhenyu was so shocked that his heart was about to break open. He shouted, led his men to fly over and fled eastward without any chance.

At this time, Kang Dazhuang also rode over on a horse. He and Xiaoxi took Li Zhen and Jiuzhi's horse. Kang Dazhuang shouted anxiously: "The horses can't withstand the sandstorm, let's run away!"

Li Zhen was also anxious. He heard that if he encountered a sandstorm on the way, he would die forever. If they didn't leave, they would be buried under the yellow sand.

He didn't even have time to say anything, turned over and shouted, "Come with me!"

He whipped the war horse hard, and the Red Blood BMW was frightened and ran wildly to the northeast with no life. The three people behind followed closely. Lan Zhenyu and the others fled east. They could not follow, and they had to change directions and run northeastward.

Because Li Zhen made great contributions to breaking through and reporting the news, Zhang Ting awarded him several Tubo war horses. Li Zhen gave Kang Dazhuang and Xiaoxi one each, and the four of them had good horses.

It is precisely for this reason that the four of them escaped the most terrifying sandstorm in the desert. The four of them ran nearly a hundred miles in one breath before slowly slowing down their horse speed.

"Dazhuang, how can there be sandstorms in summer? Isn't it just in spring?" Li Zhen asked with lingering fear.

Kang Dazhuang shook his head, "I don't know. Uncle Ban also said that he encountered a summer sandstorm twenty years ago and said he would not usually encounter it. Unexpectedly, we actually encountered it. Fortunately, we all escaped."

"But we have no dry luggage, what should we do now?" Jiu Zhi gritted his teeth with hatred.

They ran away in a hurry, except for weapons, only gold coins they carried with them, and all the other luggage, kettles, dry food, and maps were gone.

The four of them looked at each other and looked around again. They saw stars in the sky, the shadows of mountains in the distance, and the Gobi desert was surrounded by deserts, but seeing some bushes means that they had already left the desert far away.

But where is this place? They were confused about how far they were from Gaochang.

Li Zhen looked up and stared at the stars in the sky for a moment. He said to the three people: "We should now go southeast of Gaochang City, and we can go north to Puchang County. It should be not far, about dozens of miles."

Everyone suddenly became energetic. They had money on them. As long as they arrived at the county town, they could repurchase all lost items.

Everyone got on the horse again and urged the horse to slowly travel north. Less than two miles away, they encountered a group of running yellow sheep. Li Zhen took the bow and took the arrow and shot over a fat yellow sheep with one arrow, which made everyone cheer. Jiu Zhi volunteered to peel the sheep, claiming that he had a family slaughtering skill.

At this moment, Xiaoxi suddenly pointed ahead and shouted, "Look, what is that?"
Chapter completed!