Not only that, the number of immortal masters that are not often seen in the past has also increased recently. If I had to describe it, in the past, when these mountain people appeared in front of ordinary people, people would probably have an impulse to worship them. But it seems that in just a few months, ordinary people have become accustomed to the practitioners who often appear on the streets, in the sky, and in restaurants, and it is extremely difficult to show the kind of respect and curiosity that comes from the heart.
Apart from the fact that their clothes and magical instruments are different from ordinary people, these practitioners don't seem to have anything mysterious about them. They don't have two eyes and one mouth.
When a group of people loses their sense of mystery in the hearts of ordinary people, those original assumptions and hidden superiority no longer exist.
It’s just because in the past hundreds or even thousands of years, practitioners have rarely appeared among ordinary people. Since they are outsiders cultivating immortals, they should cut off all cause and effect with the world and not be disturbed by external objects. As cultivators, they must not When he does not appear in front of the people, he often takes action to kill demons or save people from fire and water. Therefore, in the minds of ordinary people, immortal cultivators are often equated with immortals.
Immortal cultivators appear more and more frequently in the eyes of ordinary people, which naturally makes sense, but people like Hu Jinqiu probably have little chance to find out such news.
If Qi Zhen were here, comparing Hu Jinqiu's news with what they saw on Kunlun Mountain would probably allow the team to draw more conclusions.
The Western Region is preparing to clear the country, taking multiple measures to deliberately disturb the peace of the Central Plains cultivation world. The emperor is preparing for war. He does not know who the target is, but now it has a strong sense of clearing the country. The practitioners go down the mountain and start walking around in the world. What is the purpose and who is the target? I don’t know anything about the instructions.
I don’t know whether things on the mountain affect things down the mountain, or whether things down the mountain affect things up the mountain. In short, the storm is coming, and a crisis that even ordinary people can feel is quietly spreading across the land of China.
Meng Ran kept the news in his heart and prepared to retell it to Qi Zhen after meeting him.
Hu Jinqiu looked at the already darkening sky and knew that even if he speeded up today, it would be difficult to reach the next station before it got completely dark. It seemed that he would have to sleep in the wilderness today.
It's not that he has no experience sleeping in the wilderness, it's just a businessman taking goods, so he should try his best to avoid this happening.
There were no lights in this era. Even if the route was familiar enough, walking at night would be much more time-consuming and laborious than during the day, so it was not worth it.
Hu Jinqiu began to send a message to the entire caravan, asking everyone to prepare to set up camp.
At this moment, a commotion suddenly started at the rear of the caravan, and the neighing of horses sounded, shocking everyone in the caravan who were chatting happily.
What came next was the roar of the caravan guards: "The bandits are coming!"
In a caravan, the one who leads the way, the one who cuts off the rear, and the one who directs and dispatches in the middle must be the most experienced person in the caravan. Therefore, being able to judge and warn in this way means that you must be very confident.
Attached to the bandits.
Hearing this name, Hu Jinqiu felt slightly relieved, and then became uncontrollably angry.
Those four people had collected so much money from the caravan, how could the Kunlun Sect allow this to happen?
He was thinking in his head, but his heart was not at all confused.
As a mature businessman leader, he has seen a lot of things in the world. How can a mere bandit be afraid of losing one of his teeth in front of a caravan of his size?
He immediately gathered the horses of the caravan together and formed a circle around the horses with the goods on their backs. Both the horse guards and the merchants were wrapped into this simple fortification at an extremely fast speed. .
Meng Ran nodded slightly when he saw this. He was calm in the face of danger and was well organized in dealing with the enemy. It seemed that this was not the first time that Hu Jinqiu had encountered such a thing. He was able to complete the caravan's order and prohibition in such a short period of time. Such a large-scale formation adjustment is not easy for this person.
These bandits in the Western Regions, whether they are spiritual bandits or attached bandits, are actually completely different from those in the Central Plains.
There are many mountain bandits and water bandits in the Central Plains. Mountain bandits often hide in the mountains and attack passers-by unexpectedly, catching the opponent off guard; water bandits take advantage of the robbed party's inability to escape and the ability to act. The place is just a big place for boats. As long as your boat is not as fast as mine, you can only sit in the water and wait for death. The water bandits can just rely on the number of people to kill each other directly.
To describe the banditry in the Western Region more accurately, it is better to say that it is horse thieves. There are no bunkers in the vast Gobi Desert. What is important is a ruthless and whistling attack. With a saber in hand, a few must be taken away in one charge. It's too late to talk about the matter until the other party is afraid of his life.
Simple horse-rejecting stakes like Hu Jinqiu's will play a very important role at this time. As long as they can't rush up and fall into a fierce battle with the caravan guards, it's still unclear who will win.
The caravan had just set up a formation to resist the enemy, when a violent sound of horse hooves reached everyone's ears.
A few businessmen had slightly panicked looks on their faces, but they were obviously trying their best to cover it up, not wanting others to see their inexperience.
The guards in the caravan were quite eager to give it a try. As the saying goes, raising an army for a thousand days and using it for a while, they had not encountered bandits for several years, and their weapons could finally be stained with blood today.
The sound of horse hooves was getting closer, but Hu Jinqiu's face suddenly became more and more ugly.
Everyone looked into the distance and finally saw the extremely huge piece of smoke and dust.
How many subordinates would it take to create such a momentum?
This is the most important reason why Hu Jinqiu is so downcast.
When he heard the sound of horse hoofbeats, Hu Jinqiu guessed that the number of people on the other side was not too large. However, there was no trace of the other side within his sight. Hu Jinqiu felt a little heavy at the moment.
As the sound of horse hooves became more and more deafening, when the figures of these horse thieves finally appeared in sight, Hu Jinqiu finally failed to control his emotions and cursed in a low voice.
He really didn't understand why there were such large-scale bandits within the Kunlun Mountains. Did the Kunlun Sect not care about it?
The faces of the guards who were originally eager to try had already changed color when they saw the other party's momentum. How could they still have the excitement in their eyes just now?
This group of bandits is obviously different from what Hu Jinqiu remembered. Usually, if you encounter these people, they will generally charge towards the target in an instant, in order to make the target feel it at the first time. Realizing that he was ruthless and arrogant, he obediently offered his property in exchange for personal safety.
But these bandits seemed to be showing off to the caravan that they had the strength in numbers, and they kept running at a fixed speed, not in any hurry to plunder, but they didn't know why.
Kunlun Mountain is a world of practitioners, so there cannot be horse thieves in the conventional sense. Horse thieves in the conventional sense do not rely on powerful spirit bandits and have no way to survive here, so there is the theory of attached bandits.
Regardless of whether they are Ling bandits or attached bandits, they all have to look up to the Kunlun faction and never dare to make things too big, let alone form such a large team to rob and kill in a brazen manner, otherwise they will die miserably.
This is the valuable experience summed up by countless caravans coming and going here, and it is also the most important reason why these caravans are willing to hand over a real protection fee to the Kunlun Sect.
Therefore, whether it is the size of the opponent or the posture displayed now, it will make people feel that these people do not come to rob.
But the other side of the contradiction is that almost all Kunlun Mountains are cultivators. The only people who have the willingness and need to raise horses are these bandits.
As long as an experienced guard or businessman hears the sound of horse hooves within the Kunlun Mountains, his judgment will not be wrong.
So when the other party slowly stopped a hundred steps away from the caravan, and the smoke and dust dispersed, revealing the cavalry of nearly fifty people, Hu Jinqiu's expression gradually changed from ugly to confused.
The leader rode forward and came closer. He looked like a middle-aged man from the Western Regions. Anyway, from Meng Ran's point of view, these people all looked similar, and it was difficult for her to tell who was who. .
The other party first made a jabbering call. After hearing this, Hu Jinqiu's breathing became heavy, as if he was very angry.
Someone who knew the Western dialect translated what the other party said to Meng Ran.
"You are lucky to have met us. Please leave your goods and money, and then go back to where you came from."
The other party's words were actually quite polite, but what they said was not so polite.
Keep them all? Where did you come from and where are you going?
Meng Ran could understand what kind of risks these merchants were taking by running away with their goods.
Isn't this just blatant robbery?
As a criminal police officer in her previous life, it was most difficult for her to bear such lawless things happening under her nose. However, she forgot that this place itself was a lawless place.
So Meng Ran was very angry, and at the same time he felt extremely angry that the Kunlun cultivators were dishonest in their words.
These ordinary people obviously believe in you so much, but you can't even keep this promise. This nature is even worse than that of the robbers.
From this perspective, Meng Ran hates fraudsters much more than robbers. Robbers may be simply evil, but fraudsters are the most difficult kind of bad people to accept emotionally.
But Meng Ran is good at one thing. She is not as impulsive as Lin Xiao and Yu Liang. In this regard, she is even better than Jiang Yan.
So she hid quietly in the caravan, quietly observing every move of the other party, and not letting go of any details of the other party's cavalry.
