More than sixty people traveling on carriages and horses were told to get out of the car and walked eastward on foot. The old man who had been here was very calm. This trip was not a good one. With so many carts of pig iron, no one was a fool, so these cart drivers had no complaints at all about retreating three miles. It is better to know less.
However, Tan Bin and three other spies from Xuanqing Guard didn't think so.
The three of them got close in a tacit understanding, and after a brief exchange of words, they decided to use the two of them as cover, and Tan Bin quietly slipped back to see the situation.
Fortunately, no one was watching the sixty-odd carriage drivers as they walked east. Perhaps the buyers ignored these "very reliable" transport fleets after many successful transactions. They are all ordinary people, no one cares too much.
It was very easy for Tan Bin to quietly leave the team when there were no monks to monitor him and the targets were ordinary coachmen. Besides, he had companions to cover him. Almost as soon as he turned his head, there was one less person in the group that was chatting and laughing.
He jumped into the grass on the side of the road, then rolled into the small woods behind him. Then, under the shade of the trees, he quickly distanced himself from the crowd, and after a long circle, he approached the place where the convoy had previously parked.
You can't get too close. There are all monks on the opposite side, and Tan Bin knows nothing about his cultivation level. The training he has received is that he must not get close to the monks within half a mile to test, otherwise he is likely to be discovered by the monks' methods.
Tan Bin moved quickly, running in the forest like a nimble ape, and soon found a tree on a hill and climbed up. This is the highest point recently, and one mile ahead you can see where the motorcade is parked.
After confirming the position, Tan Bin took out a copper ball covered with formation patterns, a large and small walnut, from his arms, and then took out a pan spiritual stone and skillfully stuffed it into the copper ball, and then activated it. The next moment, the copper ball floated in the air and quickly covered Tan Bin's right eye like a mechanical eyeball.
This is a detecting ball, a low-grade magic weapon that has one purpose: it can extend vision to places up to two miles away.
Detection balls are widely used. Basically every spy in the army will bring one with them when they go out. They can see the movement of the target by hiding one or two miles away. Unless the opponent activates large-scale countermeasures, it will be difficult. Discover this peek of sight from a distance.
Tan Bin waited quietly under the cover of the probing ball and the shade of the trees. In the field of vision behind the probing ball's blessing, the thick cloth on the carriage had been lifted off. Neatly stacked pieces of pig iron were exposed. The monks around them did not go to get them, but kept watch around them.
After about a meal, Tan Bin saw many people coming out of the bamboo forest near the motorcade... No, they should be barbarians!
That bamboo forest is the bamboo sea thousands of miles to the south. It only takes two or three miles to enter, and it is not actually the boundary of the Jingjiu Dynasty. The south of the Bamboo Sea is the territory of the barbarians, and now the people coming out of the Bamboo Sea are naturally the barbarians.
So big!
The barbarians coming out of the bamboo forest quickly approached the direction where the convoy was parked. After that, their size was in sharp contrast with the monks who were on guard beside the convoy.
Close to eight feet, some even look like nine feet! Moreover, he was tall and thick-set, with very few clothes on his body, and his exposed muscles were like rocks with a metallic sheen that irritated people's eyes.
Look at the appearance again. The ears of this barbarian are very large and a little overturned, and the nose is slightly long and droopy, and there are two canines protruding from the corners of their mouths.
Elephant clan! And they are from the Tusker Tribe!
Tan Bin clicked his mouth. He would do this habitually when he was nervous. Even though they were one mile away and had the shade of trees, the more than twenty tusker tribesmen in the scout's field of vision still gave him a great sense of oppression.
Because if we want to talk about which tribe is the most powerful among the barbarians, it is definitely the Long Tusk Elephant tribe. The entire tribe has practiced physical training and is extremely powerful. Not to mention that their muscles are as tough as armor, and ordinary magic weapons can hardly damage them. If you want to talk about a weakness, it is that the number of members of the Long Tusk Elephant Clan is too small, otherwise the Wolf Clan would not be able to take the position of the first tribe among the barbarians.
It turned out that these pig iron blocks were sold to the tusked elephant tribe? Isn’t it said that the Tusker Tribe likes to charge naked the most? What are you doing with the pig iron? Forging armor...?
Tan Bin shuddered unconsciously when he thought of this possibility. What would happen if the Long-tusked Elephants, whose bodies are already as tough as armor, were covered with a layer of heavy armor?
He felt uncertain, but Tan Bin continued to look into the distance without blinking.
Although it was impossible to hear what the monks and the Long-tusked Elephants said, it was obvious that they knew each other. After a few words, the leader of the Long-tusked Elephants took out a storage bag and started filling it with pig iron. , and soon most of them were taken away. However, the capacity of the storage bag is also limited, and there are obviously some left. These tusked elephants don't need to greet them, and they can just carry them away one by one, which seems effortless at all.
He even just carried the iron blocks of fifty kilograms each on the left and right and disappeared into the sea of bamboo.
The monks who delivered the goods did not stay or call for the convoy. They just raised their hands and threw a signal talisman. It exploded with a loud bang in the sky and then quickly left in another direction.
The loud noise was a signal, indicating that all the goods in the front had been shipped out. Some of the coachmen behind were familiar with the route, and they called on the bragging coachmen who were sitting around in twos and threes on the ground to get up and return to the convoy. And Tan Bin also hung up the tail of the team again on the side of the road and joined in.
We first returned to a small town near Haixia to repair, and then started driving back the next day. Because the return trip is not downstream, the speed is actually slower than the land route. Moreover, the trip to the horse and carriage shop will not be in vain. The convoy took on some transportation work section by section along the road, and it took more than a month before it returned to Fengri City.
However, Tan Bin's news was encrypted and sent back through Xuanqingwei's news channel when he was under the command.
It was the fifth day of July when Shen Haoyuan got the encrypted copper bar from Tan Bin in Fengli City, which was the third day after Tan Bin witnessed the transaction.
Shen Hao looked at the detailed description in the copper bar. He had already been mentally prepared that the pig iron was sold to a barbarian, but now the information was only conclusive.
However, Shen Hao did not expect that the Longtusk Elephant Clan came out of the Bamboo Sea to the Xiaochuan territory to collect the goods. Didn’t it mean that all the tusked elephants were wiped out in the last war? It doesn't seem to be the case today.
In addition, I haven’t seen who the “Ma San” who bought pig iron from Xiaoshan Iron Furnace Mansion on the black market was, but it is certain that there is a group of people between the real buyer, the Barbarian, and the seller, Xiaoshan Iron Furnace Mansion. Through matchmaking, it can be seen that the power is not small, judging from the fact that dozens of monks can be dispatched to escort the transportation. Who are these people?
In addition, Shen Hao was also curious that the Longtusk Elephants were buying the pig iron, but what about the pan-spirit stones and grain?
