Chapter 1457 Kongsberg
The wind and sand continued all night, the sun rose and the night ended, and the warm sun in the early morning dispelled the coldness of the night in the desert.
"Uh-huh..." That night, Cesaniel hid in the leeward corner and slept on the floor. When he woke up, his body was almost stiff. At this movement, Monina made a sound of humming. She curled up in front of Cesanil and was still sleeping soundly. Because she was only wearing high-cut tights and she caught a cold at night, she was still pressing her head against Cesanil's chest. Shrinking, his whole face was buried in Cesanil's arms. The beautiful girl's face was exposed from the side, and she was talking back. One of her wings covered the two of them, sleeping soundly.
Cessanil had just woken up and was still unconscious. After a while, he suddenly woke up and looked around. The figure of the red-haired man was no longer there, and even a dog tied nearby was gone. The camels were also missing. He quickly opened his wings and sat up, and Monina was also woken up: "What's wrong?"
Cesaniel ran around to look around, and then flew into the air, but there was nowhere to see. Meet people.
"He's missing?" Monina flew into the air to help search for him.
“Damn it!” Cesaniel was secretly angry. He was always vigilant and didn’t even know when he fell asleep: “Why did I sleep so deeply last night? He didn’t even take the camel away. I don’t know. Ah, no! He must have drugged me, but when..."
Sesaniel concluded that he would not sleep so deeply, and must have been drugged to sleep. But when he thought that he had been extremely vigilant yesterday, there was no chance that the other party would attack him, including the piece of meat steak he grabbed. He had already paid attention to it when eating it, not to mention that grabbing the steak was a sudden move on his part. The red-haired man It's impossible to predict in advance.
His heart suddenly moved: "Ah, it's those pepper and salt grains! He must have mixed the hypnotic drug into it when he sprinkled the pepper and powder, covering it up with the smell of meat and pepper. The smell of drugs." Thinking of this, he was shocked again: "He must have thought that I would. He was more vigilant about the first piece of steak that he fried, and then he started to fry the second piece of steak after I let my guard down. So regardless of whether I grabbed his steak or not, he would fry the second piece, and at that time I was still thinking about it. Trying to anger him. Damn it, this guy has such deep intentions!”
Cesaniel looked around and took out a map to compare: "Which direction will he go? North? Or other directions? Based on this guy's scheming, I'm sure the magic bottle is in his hands. On your body!" He put away the map, dropped it on the ground and picked up his camel: "Going north is a sandy road. Deep in the desert, this is the direction he walked before, but it may have confused me. You can leave the desert by going west or south. The south is the direction we came from. Will he go west? The east is still the desert, but he can? Leading to somewhere else...Monina, go east and look."
One of the two people was riding a camel, and the other was flying in the sky. After walking for a while, they found a pile of camel dung in a grassy place. There was only one pile of camel dung, so it was not a caravan, and the dung was very fresh, so it must have been left within two or three hours. Cesanil said: "He really went east."
Just as Cesanil pulled the reins of the camel and chased eastward, the red-haired man asked the camel to leave a pile of grass in the grass. The excrement has already turned and is slowly heading south.
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After nearly two days of travel, Alice and her party arrived in Kongsburg.
Kongsburg used to be a small militarized city. At that time, the desertification in the north was not as serious as it is now, and the country that ruled this land at that time was not the current Toliba country. In order to resist the threat from the north, the king at that time decided to build this area into an important military fortress, which is why Kongsberg got its name. However, the years have changed, and the story of that year has become history. Kongsberg lost its role in resisting foreign enemies and gradually became deserted. It was not until recent years that it became a market town where nearby villages and nomads gathered to purchase goods.
Kongsberg is not big, but there are many people, because today is the day when the market starts from the end of the month to the beginning of the month. The nomads and villagers nearby gather here to buy the necessary items for the next month. The residents who live here all rely on the ancient houses to be renovated. Many people have actually lived here for a long, long time. Not far from the gathering place of the townspeople, you can see a fortress. The fortress has gone through the years and has been uninhabited for a long time. Only the ruins of the ruins can be seen to show the outline of the glory of the past.
“This is Kongsburg.” Alice and the five of them were walking in the market with the desert dodoo. The crowd here was dense, and there were no officers and soldiers here to maintain order. It all depended on everyone’s consciousness, so it seemed Bustling and a bit chaotic. After walking for a while, we saw a small shop selling meat soup and meat noodles at the T-junction of the market. Because it smelled so good, we decided to eat here.
The meat offal mainly includes horse meat offal, mutton offal and camel offal. Each of the five people ordered one according to their preference. After a while, the meat offal noodles were served.
Rourke took a bite and thought it was good, and asked everyone: "How should we look for it later? Should we search separately?"
Lucas said: "The place here is not big, just Let's search separately. Let's make an appointment and meet at the foot of the fortress. Whoever finds it first will be taken there. No matter whether we find it or not, we will go there before six o'clock in the afternoon. "
"Okay, that's it."
After eating the noodles, everyone split up to look for people. Alice searched along the market streets. She paid special attention to people with black hair when she came to where the residents lived. I went to the hotel and the hotel to inquire, but after searching for a long time, I still couldn't find anyone.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, Alice had already arrived at the foot of Kongsberg. Unexpectedly, someone came earlier than her.
"How is it?" Komand was sitting on a fallen thick stone pillar, and was knocking the surface of the stone pillar with the metal ankle brace on his leather boots out of boredom.
Alice shook her head: "I didn't find it."
Not long after, Jennifer, Lucas, and Rourke came back one after another. Everyone looked at each other and knew that no one was there. Rourke said: "How could it be? The market town is not big, so it is impossible to miss someone."
"Unless he didn't come at all." Komande said.
“But we are already here. Is it possible to go back and think of another way?” Rourke said.
"It seems that the clue is lost." Jennifer looked at Lucas.
Lucas was a little unwilling and said: "Let's look for it again and meet here again in two hours." Two hours later, five people gathered here, and Comand spread his hands. This means it was not found. Lucas sighed: "The clues are really broken. Losing the whereabouts of Cesaniel is equivalent to losing the goal of finding the magic bottle."
"I have been busy for so many days in vain. I have been making trouble for a long time, but my things have been snatched away by others. It is really frustrating." Commande rested his head on the stone pillar and said: "Here are the clues to the Sand Temple. Even if it’s interrupted, we have to look for clues again if we want to continue searching.”
Everyone was a little discouraged.
Alice was curious: "What exactly is the Sand Temple you are talking about, and why do you have to find it?"
"This is a secret that cannot be told. In short, this is our mission. , and we must find the location of the Sand Temple." Komand said.
"Mercenary mission?"
"That's right."
After one night, I spent another day searching in Kongsberg. On the morning of the third day, Alice and the five of them met again.
Jennifer asked: "Alice, where are you going to go next?"
Alice shook her head: "I don't know, I haven't thought about it yet. Maybe I will keep looking. The person who stole the magic bottle may go somewhere else, but there is no specific target.”
"That's it." Jennifer said, "Well, Alice, the four of us discussed it last night, maybe it's time to say goodbye."
"So you gave up?"
Jennifer said: "It's not that I give up, but that I have no choice. There is no direction, and my companions and I can't continue to delay here, so it's time to leave."
"Then Where are you going?" Alice asked.
Jennifer said: "We are mercenaries, and we should go where we have missions. Of course, we will not forget to find new clues about the Tomb of Glonas and the Sand Temple during the process."
Alice shrugged: "Okay. By the way, where is the sheepskin map? You don't want it anymore?"
Jennifer said: "We have thought about this. In fact, we have a common goal. So in the future, if you find relevant clues, or if we find them, we will use a method to contact each other. The contents of that incomplete sheepskin map can’t be understood anyway, so we won’t worry about leaving it on you.”
Alice was right, their main target is at the Sand Temple. As for his goal, Long Ling, there is no conflict between the two parties. If they find clues, they can help each other. Then he nodded and said: "That's fine."
Jennifer said: "We have a continent-wide mailbox at the World Bank. If you have any news, just write and send it to the 'Barren Rock City Mailbox', which is the name." Just accept it from the Corpse Fly Team, we will check the mailbox from time to time.”
The continent-wide mailbox, also known as the world mailbox, as the name suggests, is a mailbox that is used throughout the continent. It is different from ordinary mailboxes. Ordinary mailboxes can only be used for point-to-point mailing, but the continent-wide mailbox is used regardless of where the recipient is in the mainland. In any place, as long as the World Bank exists, letters or mails can be received and sent. Back then, Linda used this kind of mailbox to communicate with Bing Zhixie.
Alice looked at them and said: "You also have a world mailbox, which costs a lot to rent for a year."
Jennifer smiled: "That mailbox is not just for us, we can use it. "As she said that, she took out a pen and paper, wrote down the words "Desolate Rock City and Corpse Fly" and handed it to Alice.
Alice said: "Okay, goodbye."
"Goodbye."
After Jennifer and the other two left, Alice looked at the note: " "Desolate Rock City?" She scratched her head: "It seems to be somewhere." I heard it. Forget it, I should think of my own solution after they leave. Since I can’t find anyone here, I might as well find someone to interpret the content on the sheepskin map. Maybe someone knows the location marked on it. .”
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(End of this chapter)