Chapter 189: Dangerous Scouting

It turned out that when that team was moving under the guidance of the Imp sent by Old Xie towards a spring deep in the woods, Old Xie’s sensitive ears actually heard the sound of splashing water coming from one of the carriages in their team.

Old Xie immediately became suspicious. You know, that carriage was obviously for people to ride in, so it definitely couldn’t be a water truck. Moreover, the sound of water was loud, as if what was installed inside was not seats, but a large bathtub. The most bizarre thing was that Old Xie actually heard the sound of someone playing with water, as if someone was really taking a bath in a tub.

You know, this is the Great Gobi! Water is as precious as oil. Under these circumstances, how could someone be hiding in a carriage taking a bath? If you say that’s a prodigal son of a Great Noble Family, it doesn’t look like it, because the appearance of that carriage was not luxurious, very ordinary. A luxury element who could take a bath in the Gobi would probably disdain to use such a carriage. Moreover, looking at the dense guards around the carriage, their expressions were clearly guarding a prisoner, not protecting an important big shot.

So Old Xie became curious. How big of a deal prisoner is this, to be able to enjoy the treatment of taking a bath at any time in the Great Gobi? This is simply too incredible.

Since Old Xie’s curiosity was aroused, he naturally wouldn’t let it go easily. So he quietly called over a Wyvern King, climbed onto its back, and had it take off from the square, sending him to the forest outside in a direction far away from that group of people. Then he let the Wyvern King go back by itself, after all, its target was a bit too big. Old Xie himself transformed into the appearance of a White Tiger, quietly approached from another direction, avoided the patrol personnel sent by the other side, and hid in the distance to observe slowly.

Fortunately, the trees here were dense and grew lushly, otherwise, Old Xie really might not have been able to get close so easily. Because these people were really too careful, they actually sent dozens of people to check the surroundings, afraid of falling into a trap. Moreover, they were extra careful with the small pool here. After taking the water out, they checked it carefully several times. Only after determining that there was really no problem did they dare to confirm that Old Xie had no malice.

Until this point was confirmed, they officially started to set up camp. They had a very clear division of labor. Pitching tents, chopping wood, fetching water, settling horses, etc. They did all these jobs very neatly and cleanly, obviously they did them often.

At this time, Old Xie finally saw the complete appearance of this unit. The carriages opened one after another, and about 30 people wearing robes walked out from inside. Old Xie easily inferred from their attire that ten of them were Mages, and the other twenty or so were Priests of Light. Seeing this, Old Xie couldn’t help but be surprised. He didn’t expect the opponent’s strength to be so strong, it was really somewhat bizarre. You know, even in the Regular Army of the Empire of Light, among ten thousand people, there wouldn’t be so many Mages and Priests distributed!

Moreover, the levels of these Mages and Priests didn’t look low either, seemingly all above Level 3, much stronger than ordinary accompanying Mages. This kind of person is usually a national treasure, to be protected with emphasis, how could they appear in the Great Gobi? Old Xie couldn’t figure it out no matter what.

Just as everyone was busy, Old Xie suddenly noticed again that under the personal command of the old man, a dozen people came to the carriage that made the sound of water. They didn’t open the side door that the carriage usually used, but directly opened the back door. Then they really carried out a large bathtub with seven hands and eight feet. And in the bathtub, there was actually a stunning beauty.

However, this beauty, whose beauty was not inferior to Constantine’s, was not naked. She wore a green vest on her upper body. It was a kind of clothing with a strange texture, as if it was made from the skin of some fish. Anyway, it wasn’t afraid of water at all, just like a leather swimsuit.

In addition, this beauty was obviously not a Human Race, because she had four arms, all tied to the bathtub, unable to move. As for her lower body, it was actually the same as a fish, without legs. From the waist down, it was simply a fish tail.

So, although her upper body curves were exquisite and extremely moving, as soon as one saw that tail, one couldn’t help but feel a bit depressed. Anyway, from Old Xie’s perspective, that tail undoubtedly affected the visual appeal.

Seeing this, Old Xie already completely knew everything. Because from this beauty’s extremely special physical characteristics, as well as the characteristic that she needed to be soaked in water, he easily recognized her origin. This was clearly a branch of the Star Elves from the islands of the South Sea, namely the Siren Tribe.

Seeing this, Old Xie couldn’t help but feel a nameless anger rise in his heart, because no matter what, she was a member of the Star Elves Royal Family. Even if Old Xie himself didn’t care about this identity, it didn’t mean he could watch someone kidnap a Star Elf to be a slave and remain indifferent. The connection of blood is wonderful. Vaguely, Old Xie had already regarded that Siren as his own. An impulse to protect her arose spontaneously.

It was precisely because Old Xie was agitated by this that he used a little too much force with his foot and stepped on a branch. As a result, the slight sound of the branch breaking immediately alerted several people nearby.

“Who?” With several shouts, several sharp arrows first shot through the dense forest straight towards Old Xie.

Old Xie saw that his target was exposed and couldn’t care about hiding anymore. He hurriedly turned over to avoid the crossbow arrows shot at him, then turned around and ran towards the Castle. Although Old Xie was a confident person, confidence didn’t mean arrogance. After all, there were hundreds of people on the other side, and they had Priests, Mages, and Warriors all complete. It was impossible for him alone to beat so many people! Unless he had the strength of his previous life, otherwise, he could only run away first, return to the Castle to gather Reinforcements and then make plans.

Old Xie running like this completely exposed his figure, letting everyone else see him. That old man glanced over and immediately lost his color and roared angrily, “Damn it, that’s a Magical Beast transformed by a Druid. Quick, must kill him!”

When the others heard it was a Druid, they immediately became nervous. They hurriedly threw down the work in their hands. The close-combat Warriors grabbed their weapons and chased after him. The Archers and Mages didn’t say a word either. Spells and sharp arrows rained down on Old Xie like rain.

There was no way they couldn’t be afraid. You know, since the Star Elves sank themselves, the Sun Elves realized their mistakes. Over these twenty thousand years, they have been trying to compensate the Star Elves. Although the others didn’t appreciate it, in order to atone for their sins, they still silently did a lot for the Star Elves. One point was to secretly protect and take care of them.

So much so that on the Continent, there was such an unwritten rule. If someone secretly kidnapped a Sun Elf to be a slave, after being found out, maybe only he himself would have to pay with his life. But if it was a Star Elf, then the anger of the Elves would definitely bring disaster to the family. No matter the status of the culprit, the whole family would be executed. For this, they would even not hesitate to launch a war against a country. In the history of the last ten thousand years, because of privately snatching or keeping Star Elves as slaves, the Royal Families of Small Kingdoms wiped out by the Sun Elves were no less than two digits.

If the matter of them kidnapping the Siren was exposed today, then it could be certain that the Pope of the Empire of Light would definitely chop off the heads of all their family members and send them to the Elves. One was to atone for their sins, and the other was to use this to show their innocence and avoid a full-scale war with the frenzied Elves over this small matter.

With the lives of the whole clan at stake, how could they not be anxious? So every one of them tried their best to deal with Old Xie! However, they quickly depressingly discovered that their opponent was simply too perverted. Ten Mages, plus 200 well-trained Archers, bombarded him crazily, but they didn’t even hurt a single hair on him.

This guy jumped up and down in the woods, as if he had eyes on his back, always able to avoid the incoming arrows and Spells a step earlier. Of course, this also had to do with the terrain here. There were big trees one or two feet thick everywhere, so the performance of the Archers was severely limited. The Mages’ Spells were the same. After destroying some trees, the power of those Spells would drop. At least the aftermath of the Magic was no longer enough to hurt the thick-skinned Old Xie. If it were on an open plain, no matter how skilled Old Xie was, it would be impossible for him to escape the large-scale coverage attack of so many long-range units unscathed.

As for those infantry, don’t even think about it. Old Xie was currently in the White Tiger transformation state. Four legs running in the woods, how could those two legs catch up? He actually only needed to pay attention to avoiding those Spells with super long range. For infantry and Archers, Old Xie basically ignored them. Because the range of Archers was only a few dozen meters after all. As long as he exceeded this distance, the other side had no way to deal with Old Xie. So, relying on Old Xie’s agile skills and the cover of the dense forest, in the end, he ran very safely to the bottom of the Castle, and then climbed up along the City Wall. His sharp claws firmly grasped the City Wall, and his whole body was just like a gecko, directly climbing up like that.