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"Come up!"
Ember pulled the tree stick upward, and the village guard below was dragged to the crown of the tree.
"Everyone..., what are you doing..." Lying on the tree crown, the village guard saw a large crowd of people at the entrance of the village, so he curiously asked Yi Yan.
"It seems that we are discussing moving you guys?" Yi Yan touched his chin. The distance had turned into a meaningless scolding battle, and the scholars of the Academy of Teaching had completely fallen below.
"Move? No! Don't..., this place... is very good..., don't move..."
When the village guard heard this, he immediately rolled on the spot on the tree crown.
"Do you want to blow a hole in your head and become a real fool? Who said we are moving? Did you agree or did I agree?"
The embers restrained the village guard who was rolling in the tree crown. If he hadn't taken action, he would have fallen to the ground by now.
The village guard became quiet because he heard that there was no need to move.
Chapter 658: The position that the Order Academy cannot reach
2024-05-10
"You... you..."
"What am I? You little white rabbits who are shaded by big trees should get out of the desert quickly. The yellow sand here is more ferocious than the most venomous snakes in the rain forest!"
A villager who looked very irritable pushed hard, and the scholar in front of him staggered and collapsed on the ground.
This scene caused the villagers in the surrounding Aru village to burst into laughter. In the laughter, a few vulgar words were thrown out from time to time.
The people in the desert received very little education, and their knowledge was not as good as that of the scholars of the Ecclesiarchy. But when it came to swearing, even the scholars could not catch up.
No, just for a short while, the scholar who was confronting the villagers was so scolded that his face turned red and he was hesitant and speechless.
"No wonder you guys only deserve to stay in the desert, a bunch of uncivilized savages!"
The scholar from the Teaching Council stood up from the ground with a curse. He shook his head to clear all the curse words from his mind. Then he pointed at the unkind-looking villagers in the distance and scolded in his loudest voice:
"Don't blame me for not giving you a chance. Hand over those lunatics quickly, otherwise don't blame us for being rude!"
The scholar's voice was so loud that it temporarily drowned out the noise of the villagers. However, after a brief silence, there was indeed a more violent attack.
"Who do you think you are?"
"Look clearly, outsiders! This is a desert, get out of here! Otherwise, I'll water the flowers with your blood!"
"It's quite loud. I thought you rainforest people were all whispering like pussies!"
……
No one listened to the scholars' words. Aru Village was able to develop into the largest and most orderly human stronghold in the desert. There were factors of conscience and morality, but what was even greater was the fierce force of the villagers.
Not to mention anything else, the value of the Crescent Bay Spring below Aru Village that never dries up is no less than the same amount of mola in the desert.
Aru Village can sit on this clear spring and still live a stable life, but the dangers involved are beyond the imagination of these scholars.
"They are indeed a group of barbarians! The sages are right, the rain forest should not be defiled by you guys!"
"Who cares about your dog..."
"All right!"
A louder female voice sounded in the crowd, and then Candice, holding a staff in one hand and a shield in the other, walked out of the crowd.
She looked around at the cursing villagers with her heterochromatic eyes. The men who had just uttered vulgar words were now more polite than anyone else.
They took a few steps back and gave Candice an awkward smile.
Not paying attention to the performance of the villagers, Candice turned her attention to the scholars in front of her after making sure it was quiet behind her.
"Several scholars, Aru Village has offended many people just now, please forgive me." Standing with the red sand staff in her hand, Candice nodded to the angry scholars like a businessman, with a strong tone in her voice. No emotion at all.
"Hoo..., hoo..."
The scholars of the Imperial Academy finally had time to adjust their angry moods. Just now, the villagers of Aru Village were talking incessantly, and they were swearing in dozens of different styles without giving them any chance to breathe.
"I won't argue with you savages."
"Let me remind you, you were the one who started it, and you called your companions lunatics with no worries. Civilized people don't seem to do this, right?"
Candice punched the red sand staff on the ground, and the splashed sand hit the scholars' faces with pain.
"Forget it, it's a waste of time to talk to you about these irrelevant topics! Let's see if you can speak well here, and give me accurate information, those crazy people..."
"Ok?"
Candice's sharp gaze like a leopard fell on the leading scholar, giving the latter a pause.
"That group...that group of people, are you going to make friends with them or not?"
After reorganizing his words, the scholar asked again, but this time his tone was not as arrogant as before.
"Will you hand over your family?" Candice glanced at the scholars in front of her, then took back her weapon and turned away.
"You guys should go back. Outsiders with bad intentions are not welcome in Aru Village."
Candice's back was so dazzling to the scholars. Seeing that Aru Village was indifferent to the demands of the Order, several scholars were filled with anger and threatened:
"This is what you said. The Teaching Council has many methods. Don't regret it when the time comes!"
It's a pity that their harsh threats fell on everyone's ears and failed to attract any attention.
"Go back and tell the sages that when the tentacles of the Order reach the Port of Ormos, you can consider dictating the desert again."
"You can't even control the rainforest, and you still want to invade the desert? I wonder if you were fooled by the leaf next to your ear!"
Candice accepted the threats from the scholars without looking back. To her, it was more like the incompetent rage of a child during a quarrel.
At present, the Ecclesiastical Order can’t even reach into the desert.
"Stop watching the excitement and go back!" Candice waved to the gathered villagers, and these unruly desert people dispersed like birds and beasts.
After a while, only a few scholars were left standing alone in the wind and sand at the entrance of the huge village.
"Looks like it's been solved?"
Ember jumped down from the tree crown, holding in his hand the village guard who was lying on the tree crown with him.
"How did you climb up with him?" Candice looked at the tall and smooth date palm trees and marveled.
After sighing, she nodded to the embers and said nonchalantly:
"It's solved. It's just a group of scholars who regard Aru Village as a tool. Our acceptance of the village guards from the Order seems to have given them some wrong ideas."
Aru Village was initially very concerned about accepting mad scholars from the Order Academy. But all dissatisfaction disappeared after an earthquake.
An unprecedented earthquake, but the damage caused is not as bad as common sandstorms. All this is thanks to those mad scholars from the Order Academy.
It was they who protected Aru Village, so from then on, the title of "madman" gradually disappeared in Aru Village, and was replaced by "village guard".
"Where are the people you are looking for?" Candice then asked, she hasn't met Gale Discipline Officer yet, maybe she can get to know them.
"I wonder if my friend is lying to me. He has been waiting here for several days. Let alone the people, I didn't even detect their breath."
Yi Yan fell into deep thought. Although he had enjoyed catching the villagers in Aru Village these past few days, there was no progress at all in the most important business, which made him not so happy.
"Maybe I should try to search outside?" Looking around, the ground near Aru Village is gravel, and outside is an endless sea of sand.
"It's best not to. The desert is extremely dangerous. Even those of us who have lived here for generations may be lost, let alone a stranger like you."
Candice disagrees with the idea of Ember heading to the Sand Sea. Without guidance in the desert, the only outcome is death.
"Actually, it doesn't matter if I get lost. Maybe I can meet the person I'm looking for by wandering around?"
Ember waved his hands and said nonchalantly.
The desert is indeed dangerous to other people, but to Ember, it can only be regarded as a slightly special tourist attraction.
He didn't believe that there wasn't anything interesting in such a big place. Even if you can't run into Seno and the others, it would still be nice to meet something weird.
"It's decided, let's set off tomorrow morning!" Yi Jin waved his hand and decided the time to go to the Sand Sea.
"Well, I wish you all the best." Seeing Yan Yan's expectant look, Candice could only express her blessing.
Chapter 659: Pull and lure
2024-05-10
The desert is extremely silent late at night, if you ignore the embers running nearby.
Today Ember didn't lie on the sand counting stars like before. He wandered around the outskirts of Aru Village, trying to choose a suitable departure direction for tomorrow.
Although the scene near Aru Village almost looked like a copy and paste, Yi Yan still enjoyed comparing the differences.
He especially cares about things like visions. After all, as long as there are such things, it means that fun is inevitable.
Soon, in the northwest of Aru Village, he saw a vague and looming shadow. Judging from the appearance of the shadow, it should be some kind of huge pyramid.
"It's a good place. Make a note of it first." Yi Yan nodded. His guess was indeed correct. How could there be no novelty in such a large place?
But just when he was about to change direction and go to the other side to investigate carefully, he saw a shaking figure appearing in Aru Village late at night.
"Come out to relieve yourself?" Yi Yan scratched his head. Because he had such an experience in the previous night, he didn't pay much attention at first.
But as time went by, things became a little strange - mainly because the man passed the public toilet in Aru Village and was about to run outside the village.
"There is a problem." Yi Yan decisively gave up his work of surveying the terrain, approached the figure and shrank behind him.
What surprised him was that the figure running out in the middle of the night was not anyone else, but the village guard who had been making a lot of noise during the day.
In complete contrast to the energy he had during the day, the village guard was now stumbling and muttering. It looked like a gust of sand could blow him away.
"Sleepwalking? Mental patients can also sleepwalk?" The appearance of the village guard reminded Yi Jin of some of the symptoms of sleepwalking.
"Does that mean we can't disturb him?" As he squatted in the back and pondered, Yi Yan felt that this was a difficult question.
I heard that sleepwalkers cannot be woken up. Once they wake up, their brains will be completely destroyed. Although the villagers' brains have become a little difficult to use, if possible, Yi Yan still hopes to prevent their brains from being further damaged.
"Are you leaving the village soon? This is not easy to handle." For a moment, the village guard in front was about to leave Aru Village.
And because of his wide field of vision, Yi Yan was surprised to find that there was more than one "sleepwalking" village guard.
"I heard that you went crazy because you absorbed the knowledge of the gods in the World Tree."
"So..., this thing should be very useful, right?"