C970 Sandbandit Attack
C970 Sandbandit Attack
Ruitalee opened her eyes wide, then looked at Lee Shaoyu in disbelief and asked, "I contradicted you in such a way, and you still want me to eat barbecue?"
"You already have this kind of character at such a young age, so you have the right to eat this piece of roasted meat. Furthermore, you have the right to eat it." Lee Shaoyu laughed.
"Looks like you're not too bad." Ruitalee was still a child after all, so she couldn't resist the temptation of the barbecue in the end. She directly sat in front of Lee Shaoyu with the barbecue and started eating, praising Lee Shaoyu's craftsmanship while eating. Ruitalee's grandfather watched the two of them from afar with a smile.
"Old sir, why don't we have a drink together?" Lee Shaoyu took out two jars of good wine from the Storage Ring and said to Ruitalee's grandfather as if he was performing a magic trick.
"You want to buy me a drink?" Ruitalee's grandfather was also a little tempted. If roasting meat could not move his heart, then he definitely could not resist the temptation of fine wine.
"Of course, and it's good wine." Lee Shaoyu laughed as he opened one of the clay seals. As expected, the fragrance of wine permeated the air. It was truly a good wine.
Therefore, in the end, Ruitalee's grandfather couldn't resist the temptation and sat opposite of Lee Shaoyu. The two of them started drinking happily.
Drinking alcohol could always shorten the distance between the two of them, and it would be easier for them to communicate once they drank too much. Ruitalee's grandfather was obviously such a person, talking to Lee Shaoyu as soon as he drank a few mouthfuls.
They came from a very strange tribe called the Traveller Tribe. They did not have a fixed territory, so they travelled all the way from one place to another as travelling merchants for generations. They would travel from one place to another, using the four seas as their home. On the other hand, Ruitalee's grandfather was not the leader of the caravan. He was just a bodyguard accompanying Ruitalee. Ruitalee's parents were guards, but they had both died in battle. Therefore, Ruitalee had always been with him.
"This tribe of yours is really strange. Why don't you find a fixed territory and settle down? What will you leave behind if you wander around like this?" Lee Shaoyu couldn't help but to ask.
"It's not that easy to defend a territory …" Ruitalee's grandfather forced a smile and said, "A long time ago, we had our own territory. But our tribe was not strong enough and we were defeated by other tribes time and time again. In the end, we lost the last piece of territory that we relied on to survive. I heard that a country called Qiling Country has a rapid rise in power in the north. In just a few short years, it swallowed many of the surrounding tribes and adopted a strategy of exterminating the tribes that were being attacked. That's why a lot of people ran away, and many of our caravans have people who fled from the north to begin with.
"The ruler of the Qiling Country is definitely an extremely brutal person, and does not care about the painful moods of those who have lost their homes." Ruitalee said as she ate.
Lee Shaoyu couldn't help but smile. Was this the evaluation of him by these outsiders? He had actually become a cruel and merciless monarch. However, this was normal. After all, he had started to implement an iron-blood policy. It was inevitable for him to cause some panic.
"How can you laugh? Do you think I'm wrong? " Ruitalee asked Lee Shaoyu with a slightly dissatisfied expression on her face.
"No, I feel you're right. However, I think that he definitely has his own difficulties too. After all, there are some things that cannot just be seen from the surface. He should also have his own reasons. " Lee Shaoyu laughed.
"What reason could he have? "It's nothing more than about power and position. For a single person's personal gain, he actually sacrificed so many people. As I see it, he's just a big bad guy." Ruitalee said.
"Although he had killed a few people, he had also saved a lot of lives. At the very least, he had saved the lives of those people from Qiling Country, preventing them from being invaded and slaughtered by the other clan nations. Everything is multifaceted and cannot be seen in one way alone. " Lee Shaoyu smiled as he tried to change Ruitalee's opinion.
In my opinion, he is no different from a murderous demon. He is also no different from these sand pirates living in the quicksand paths, and if we really want to find a reason, these sand pirates also have their own reasons, they can also be said to have no choice but to attack us for the sake of their own survival, but can we accept that? Ruitalee suddenly raised her face and said to Lee Shaoyu.
Lee Shaoyu's heart suddenly skipped a beat and his face sank as he said in a deep voice, "Yeah, there aren't that many right and wrong in this world. If you want to find them, you can find a reason for everything, and although everyone understands this logic, they are trying their best to avoid it. They think that what they insist on is right, but in reality, there isn't any absolute right or wrong in this world."
At this moment, he suddenly thought of Five-element Heavenly Emperor. Everything he had done to protect Human Clan, who could say that he was definitely wrong? What was the difference between what Five-element Heavenly Emperor did and what he did now? Even he was finding excuses for himself, but why couldn't he understand Five-element Heavenly Emperor?
He was still trying to enlighten the child in front of him, but this child had a deeper understanding than he did. Was he the one who had been at a loss all along?
"Don't listen to the nonsense of a child. What can she possibly understand at such a young age? Those important figures who control the lives of countless people always have their own reasons for doing things. When is it our turn to be critical of here." Perhaps he had the same idea as Ruitalee, but after so many years, he was already used to life and death and was forced by power to the point of bending his waist, so he felt that everything should be as it was and had long since accepted this iron-blooded law of the law of the jungle from the bottom of his heart.
At this moment, he was starting to see his future more clearly. If he was a little bit lost before, then he had lost the direction and motivation to move forward. But now, his goal suddenly became clear, and he felt that he was full of motivation.
"Thank you." Lee Shaoyu picked up the wine jar and drank up the wine under Ruitalee's confused expression. Then, he suddenly broke the jar in his hand and woke up many people who were resting.
"Be on alert, the sand bandits are coming." Lee Shaoyu shouted loudly and moved Ruitalee behind him to protect her. Ruitalee's grandfather, who was drunk, suddenly became a lot more sober.
Everyone was awakened by the loud shout and looked around vigilantly. The wind was howling and other than the sound of the wind blowing past, there was nothing else. Everyone could not help but look at Lee Shaoyu in confusion.
Rustle, rustle, rustle … Rustle, rustle, rustle …
An extremely faint voice came from far away, but all of the old guards who had been walking on this path tensed up and couldn't help but clench the hilt of their swords tightly, because this was the sound of the Sand Wolf's feet stepping on the sand.
"Be on alert, let's back up against the truck and form a circle. Don't give the pirates a chance to attack us!" These old guards started to move one by one. This sound was too soft, if it wasn't for Lee Shaoyu's reminder, they wouldn't have noticed it at all. However, they also had a lot of experience, so they quickly organized some people to form a defensive circle.
The sound finally became louder and louder, but by the time everyone could hear it, the sand pirates were less than 100 meters away from the caravan. It would be too late to organize a resistance by then.
Normally, these sand pirates never appeared more than 300 people, because the environment here was too vile, so the population itself was too small. Moreover, these sand pirates belonged to different forces, so they rarely moved together, but now, the sand pirates surrounding their caravan had more than 1000 people, which was the total number of sand pirates they had encountered before. Moreover, some people who were familiar with the surroundings had already recognized the leaders of the sand pirates.
At this moment, everyone's heart sank.