The billowing smoke was like his already anxious heart, bringing more and more uneasiness. Maximus raised his last hope, roared, and let the tired horse run again. ?
"Plop!" Halfway through the journey, Maximus fell to the ground along with the tired and collapsed horse. Exhausted both physically and mentally, he tightened his hope to become a string in his mind and got up again, taking heavy steps. He continued to run forward with stumbling steps.
The land that should be full of crops in my memory has become charred black, and several corpses can even be seen scattered among it, exuding bursts of burning smell, replacing the strong fruity aroma that should be present in this season.
The ponies running in the fields had long disappeared, and the grapes and olives in the fields were also burned by the fire.
His home is ruined!
With the remaining hope, Maximus ran towards his home, but when he saw the two bodies, one large and one small, hanging in front of the door, the tight string called hope in his mind , finally broke quietly, and his world suddenly became dark!
"Bang!" As if his head was hit hard, Maximus fell to the ground, splashing a large amount of dust, and knelt down humbly on the ground, as if praying to God that these things were not true, two lines Hot tears slowly flowed down from his eyes and down his dirty, dusty face.
One step, two steps...
When he finally touched his wife's cold body, his world finally collapsed...
Holding his wife's legs, his tears were as hot as flames, falling on his heart that had lost hope, making his whole heart become cold. He was in extreme pain, and his whole face was distorted by sadness. But he couldn't cry, his throat seemed to be blocked, and he could only whimper like a dying animal.
At this moment, the hope he had always insisted on living was trampled on and shattered. He regarded his family as more important than his own life and felt that he was already dead...
His empty and numb eyes were filled with deathly gray. He numbly untied his wife and child, numbly buried them both, and numbly fell in front of the tomb. He just wanted to die in such a numb way.
The scorching sunshine shone on the comatose Maximus with a breathtaking temperature, causing him to rush towards death faster due to injuries and physical and mental exhaustion.
However, perhaps because he had not avenged his great revenge, perhaps because God wanted him to continue to suffer, or perhaps because the time for his reunion with his family and brothers had not come yet, he was rescued by a slave caravan passing by, and took him with him. Leave here.
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The end of the season is not over yet. Although he has a map, how detailed can you expect that small map to draw the route? In this era, there are many situations where there is no one within a hundred miles, so he can only identify While tracing the route on the map, he was looking for the traces left by Maximus. Therefore, under such circumstances, he was always slower than Maximus.
Slower than Maximus, he naturally understands this situation at the end of the season, but there is nothing he can do about it. He can only hope that Maximus can arrive in time to save his family.
But when he reached the key point marked on the map and saw the messy scene, he finally sighed.
"Is it still slow? So where are the Maximus people now?" He murmured with a sad look in his eyes. At the end of the season, you can imagine how heartbreaking this man who always puts his family in his heart and regards it as his spiritual pillar is feeling. lung.
He looked at his horse, which was almost unsteady, and tied it to a half-burned fruit tree. He let it eat the remaining leaves on the tree, regained its strength, and began to carefully search for Maxi. Ms.
No no!
At the end of the season, I searched all the places near Maximus' house and found no trace of Maximus at all. I just saw two earthen bags, one big and one small, without even tombstones near Maximus' house.
"Could this be his wife and son?" Ji Mo's face darkened, and he bent down towards the two dirtbags.
"If it was Maximus who buried him, where is he now?" Looking at the gradually darkening sky, Ji Mo guessed in his mind and walked slowly, trying to find some traces.
Finally, with his efforts, he discovered hidden marks left by the wheels near the hill, a hundred meters away from Maximus' home.
"There are only these traces around here, so I can only try to chase them!" Ji Mo pressed his forehead. He couldn't find any other clues, so he made this decision that was almost as good as his character.
Because I was afraid that the traces left by the wheels would disappear over time, I could only hold the still tired horse and walk slowly to let it recover its strength.
But when he chased for more than ten kilometers, he found that the traces disappeared due to the terrain...
In desperation, Ji Mo, who had lost his direction, had no choice but to stop and take a rest first. He could still support it, but he only had one horse left but was too tired to walk because of the constant running.
At dawn the next day, Ji Mo mounted his horse, which had recovered its strength after resting for several hours, and began to check around the area. After spending a lot of time, he finally discovered a small village several kilometers away.
And after staying in the small village for a while, he finally got a piece of useful news.
Their village is the only supply point within a radius of dozens of kilometers. Basically, all caravans passing by will come to them to replenish their supplies. From yesterday to now, only one slave caravan has passed by their village and replenished some food. , rushed towards Zukaba.
"Zukaba!"
Ji Mo murmured, and after asking for the route, he slowly left on his horse.
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When Maximus woke up again, he found himself on a flatbed truck. His mind was in chaos, as if there were many things crashing in his mind. He subconsciously touched the wound on his shoulder and found that the wound had already After being treated for a while, I just felt something crawling around his red and smelly wound.
If he had the energy to get up now, he would definitely see that it was a white insect, also called a maggot...
At this time, a dark-skinned man appeared in his field of vision, showed his white teeth to him, and said: "They will heal their wounds, and don't die. If you die, they will kill you for the lion!".
Maximus opened his mouth, and layers of white skin formed on his lips due to lack of water. After the black man fed him some water, the weak Maximus passed out again.
The caravan walked all the way through the desolate Gobi and arrived at their destination, Zucama in Rome. And he had already figured out his current situation. He was about to be sold as a slave like an animal.
