Chapter 451: Did I Let You Leave?

"The lone smoke of the desert rises straight, the long river reflects the round setting sun; this poem is written quite aptly!"

Walking through the wilderness, Shen Yu gazed into the distance; this was his first time in such an environment, and he could not help but feel a bit curious.

At first, he was very excited—the vast, boundless desert, the sunny weather, the greenery encountered by chance; everything seemed to attract him.

However, after walking in these places for a while and the novelty had passed, he discovered that reality was actually quite different from what he had expected; some things are better left to the imagination.

The silent sea of sand was grand and solemn, always a monotonous color; looking around, there was nothing but rising yellow sand everywhere. Desolate, cold, and lonely.

Occasionally seeing something would make him excited, but once the novelty passed, coupled with the fact that there wasn't even a human shadow around and he was all alone, he inevitably felt lonely.

This place is truly not suitable for one person to come to.

Ever since he killed Mo Yu, for several days in a row, the Compass had only been spinning around, failing to find any targets.

It seems that even if Spirit Qi has surged again, those sleeping old monsters need some time to wake up.

But it doesn't matter; he has patience and can afford to wait.

Finally, just a short while ago, when Shen Yu tried to input his power into the Compass, the needle stopped spinning and locked onto a direction.

Following the guidance of the Compass, Shen Yu crossed ten thousand miles directly to the northern desert, where there wasn't even a human shadow to be seen.

To think an old monster could hide themselves here; this train of thought is truly something else.

His figure vanished from the spot in an instant; he had seen enough of the desert scenery and didn't intend to waste any more time.

Find that old monster sooner, get the person taken care of sooner; if he has interest, he can come back to see the sea of sand later.

If there were a careful person, they would discover that not even a footprint was left where Shen Yu disappeared.

"Kill them all, loot them all!"

After teleporting another distance along the direction of the Compass, Shen Yu looked at the Compass in his hand again, only to find the needle was still pointing north.

Which means to find the person, he has to keep going north; just how far did they bury themselves?

And just at this moment, a burst of hoofbeats and excited roars rang out by Shen Yu's ears.

His Super Perception spread out to shroud the surroundings; a group of horse bandits wrapped in sheepskin appeared in his perception, and their target was a caravan organized by the old, weak, sick, and disabled.

No matter how one looked at it, this was a crushing raid; there would be no suspense.

A group of horse bandits would slaughter all these old, weak, sick, and disabled people and take all their belongings as their own.

In this desolate desert where no one lives, life is not worth much; who knows how many bones are buried under the endless yellow sand, and who would care about horse bandits roaming the wilderness?

Seeing that a brutal massacre was about to begin, those horse bandits rushed toward their target one by one, excited; even if the cargo of this group of weaklings was useless, just taking the caravan's camels for themselves was enough to make them tempted.

Seeing the horse bandits getting closer and closer, it was estimated that by this time, both sides could clearly see each other's faces.

The old and weak in the caravan hurriedly drew their respective weapons to organize a defense, but to others, this defense full of holes was simply laughable.

Facing the charge of the horse bandits, they would be scattered in all directions with just one charge.

These horse bandits were howling loudly in excitement, seemingly to boast of their own ferocity, and seemingly to mock the overestimation of their own capabilities by the people in front of them.

However, in Shen Yu's view, this seemingly loose formation of the caravan was actually loose on the outside but tight on the inside; in just a moment, they would form a proper Military Formation.

The faces of these old and weak people looked full of panic, but in reality, they were all calm and composed, especially the blades in their hands, which did not tremble at all.

Sure enough, when the horse bandits were about to charge at them, these old and weak people instantly changed their formation, and the entire caravan was protected so tightly that not even a drop of water could pass through.

Then, when the first wave of the horse bandits' charge arrived, the people at the very front relied on their own bodies to forcefully block the impact of the horses, and then the remaining people began to group into small teams to split and surround the horse bandits, killing them one by one.

Once the fighting started, one would discover that this group of old and weak people was not weak at all; when the two sides met, these people instantly turned into a group of fierce soldiers, and the kind that were battle-hardened veterans at that.

The big blade in the hands of an eighty-year-old man was swung with such vigor that it whistled; there was no stiffness in his movements at all. In the blink of an eye, several horse bandits had died at his hands.

The more disabled they were, the more fluid and natural their movements were when they fought.

It could be seen that the moves in these people's hands were ruthless, each one aiming for a fatal blow; these were definitely skills honed after being on the battlefield for a long time.

The entire battle could be called hearty and unrestrained; the commander was certainly an old general experienced in many battles, commanding a group of battle-hardened veterans with ease.

Such a Military Formation, such veteran soldiers—it is truly a pity to use them to deal with a group of horse bandits.

After a great battle, everyone was neither red-faced nor out of breath, and they were even interested in comparing their respective kills with each other.

When they had completely wiped out these horse bandits, these people began to loot everything the horse bandits had.

Every corner, from the horses to the people, was searched clean; even the horse bandits' bodies were almost stripped bare, and they didn't even spare the worn-out clothes—this was even more ruthless than bandits entering a village.

Shen Yu really doubted whether they were "black eating black," deliberately fishing to lure these horse bandits into the trap, then annihilating them in one fell swoop, only to turn around and loot their belongings.

These bandits are quite something; they didn't even bother to check before robbing. To go out to rob and get robbed in return—who can they go to for justice?

After shaking his head, Shen Yu didn't pay any more attention and vanished from the spot in the blink of an eye.

Whether it was "black eating black" or government troops suppressing bandits, neither could stir up the slightest bit of interest in him; anyway, it was the horse bandits who died.

These horse bandits looked like ruthless characters, each with human lives on their hands; if they died, they died.

After his figure appeared again, Shen Yu looked at the Compass in his hand and found that the needle was already pointing south. He had run past it; well, then he would have to head back.

After his figure shifted a few times, Shen Yu roughly determined the other party's location, and then looked ahead with some curiosity.

"Ruowu City!" Looking at the city in front of him, Shen Yu was somewhat surprised; he hadn't even thought that there would be a city in this godforsaken place.

It was called a city, but it looked like a larger town, and it wasn't very prosperous inside. However, although the town was not big, the city walls were quite high.

He had heard people mention before that the imperial court actually had over a dozen cities scattered like stars outside.

These cities stood isolated outside the Central Plains, standing tall in the desert as bridgeheads for the imperial court to the outside world.

It's just that Shen Yu didn't care much about these things before, so he didn't know where these cities were located; this Ruowu City in front of him should be one of those dozen or so cities.

Now it seems that the awakened old monster has entered the city. Come to think of it, within a radius of a thousand miles, there aren't many places with a large population.

And just as Shen Yu was preparing to enter the city, a burst of heroic singing came from afar, and then he saw a group of familiar figures slowly heading this way.

These people were exactly those who had ambushed the horse bandits in the desert earlier.

At this time, they were in a relaxed state, but when they approached Ruowu City, they each quickened their pace.

The originally tightly closed gates of Ruowu City also opened with the arrival of these people, and immediately after, there was a burst of cheers inside the city; the people of the whole city seemed to be welcoming the return of heroes.

Interesting, this Ruowu City is actually livelier than imagined.