Chapter 1065, The Shepherd

As night fell, the two sheep that had broken away from the group trotted along as if they were tireless all the way to the further northwest.

There were two people in the outpost, one patrolling during the day and one at night, so there was no dead time.

Only, who cares about two sheep on the moor?

As they made their way through the night until morning when they finally made their way through the very edge of the outpost’s defenses, they arrived behind a hill.

Here a man in a gray cotton and linen robe was already waiting.

He stood quietly waiting, his entire expression shrouded in his hood, as if he were meditating with his eyes closed.

The two sheep watched him expectantly while the gray robed man opened his eyes and fished a white stone from his own wide sleeve to hold in his hand.

Only hearing him murmur a strange byte, the two sheep were suddenly transformed into prostrate human figures, with black hair and yellow skin, not unlike those in the Middle Kingdom.

“Tell me, what did you see?” The gray-robed voice was low and magnetic, as if it contained some kind of rhythm.

The two young men said, “We seem to have seen a big shot from Fortress 178, although we are not sure of the other party’s identity, he has his own entourage, and that entourage is immensely powerful.”

“What makes it so?” The gray robe said calmly, “Say it more carefully.”

As he spoke, the stone that the gray robe held tightly in his hand, that stone seemed to mean a lot to him.

And the two men in front of him said, “That servant can walk with the boulder on his back, and that great man sits on the stone.”

“A boulder?”

“A stone more than half a man’s height,” the two servants looked at the stone in the sorcerer’s hands in awe, as if in some reverence.

The sorcerer was puzzled, “What is he doing carrying a rock on his back?”

“I’m not sure, we didn’t dare to get too close, that servant seemed to have a very sharp sixth sense, we were almost discovered just by looking at him twice more,” the servants explained, “We guessed that carrying the stone might be a means for that great man to punish him.”

“There is this possibility,” the sorcerer nodded, “But there are only two of them traveling, their status is no higher than that, so it’s not really worth my hand, so you guys go back and remember not to reveal any cracks.”

As a result, those two servants panicked, “My lord, we have been here for two years now, it has not been easy to see any special characters coming out of that fortress, please don’t miss this opportunity, I can guarantee that you will be able to find what you want!”

These two servants to say is also enough miserable, was sent to be two years of sheep also even if, during the period of time mixed into the herdsmen flock also many times after being shaved wool.

If you really want to just shave the wool and suffer humiliation, the key is that there is also the risk of being slaughtered.

What are sheep used for? It is not used to eat it ……

Now the sorcerer even let them go back to lurking, how can they stand it?

The sorcerer seemed to see through their minds, said with a smile, not a smile: “Before you came to my door want to do apprenticeship, if not for the sake of your diligence, I will not agree to, apprenticeship should have the consciousness of apprenticeship, and now it is too late to back out of it.”

The servant hurriedly said, “We don’t want to back out, you think about it, my lord, if we turn into sheep, we can’t enter the Barrier Alliance range at all, you also said that the thing you’re looking for is several hundred kilometers south-east of the 178th fortress, even if we turn into sheep, we still can’t get there ah. Why don’t you capture this big man and question him, maybe he will know?”

Another servant said, “And even if they don’t know where the thing you’re looking for is either, but that servant was born with godly strength, if you take him as a gladiator, I’m sure you’ll be able to make a big splash at next year’s event.”

The sorcerer closed his eyes and contemplated, the matter of finding something was like finding a needle in a haystack, in fact, he didn’t hold much hope.

But the matter of gladiators made the sorcerer very moved.

A slave born with divine power? As a physically fragile sorcerer very much in need of such a close entourage.

The sorcerer was silent for a long time and said, “Go, help me find them, and after this is done I will allow you to enter my sorcerer’s tower to study.”

With that, the two young men in front of him actually turned back into sheep again, while on the white stone in his hand, a purple eye lit up and went out again.

The two sheep looked at each other and ran in the direction of Fortress 178 again against the early morning sunlight.

……

Meanwhile, Ren Xiaosu and Zhang Jinglin had already woken up from their sleep, and instead of sleeping, they began to personally cook breakfast for the two sentries in this post 7.

Zhang Jinglin skillfully tied an apron and put on a cuff, while Ren Xiaosu had already started chopping vegetables, only that there weren’t many types of vegetables in the post, only radish and cabbage.

The two sentries stood outside the kitchen in a fidgety manner, “Commander, Major, why don’t the two of us cook, is it decent to let you guys cook?”

The sentry post had a telephone, so they were notified yesterday afternoon that the Commander and the Major were coming.

But they didn’t expect that the Major and Commander would have to cook breakfast for them once they woke up, which made them a bit flustered.

Zhang Jinglin smiled and comforted, “What’s the point of being nervous, you guys are stationed here, it’s not a big deal for the two of us who are comfortably staying in the fortress to cook you a meal, it’s just that it’s hard for you guys to work so hard, and you can only eat turnip and cabbage in such a tough environment, which rather makes me feel ashamed of you.”

Hearing Zhang Jinglin say this, the sentry hurriedly said, “No it won’t be, it’s good to have fresh vegetables delivered on a regular basis, it’s better to let us do the cooking!”

“What, worried that the two of us won’t cook well?” Zhang Jinglin joked, “Don’t worry, both of us are good cooks.”

Ren Xiaosu skillfully washed and picked vegetables and cut them, then as if by magic, pulled out a pig’s hind leg in front of the sentry and Zhang Jinglin ……

Zhang Jinglin had long heard that Ren Xiaosu had this kind of magical ability, but it was the first time he had seen it with his own eyes.

“Don’t look at me like that,” Ren Xiaosu said calmly, “I’ve been preparing the pork ever since I knew I was coming to the sentry post, and I’ve also brought each of them two pairs of thick socks as a gift.”

Zhang Jinglin laughed, “Yes, Yunsu is your industry, nowadays you are considered one of the richest people in the Northwest, but the question is how come you’re so rich that you only send two pairs of socks, that’s too stingy, isn’t it?”

Ren Xiaosu rolled her eyes, “You, the commander of the Northwest Army, still misses my little money?”

During the meal, the sentries drank diluted rice in their bowls, and their eyes reddened as they drank.

When they saw Ren Xiaosu and Zhang Jinglin’s gazes cast, they hastily wiped their tears, “Commander we’re fine, it’s just that you guys came to visit us that moved us.”

These sentries had all endured the toughest training and had also been stationed in this toughest environment for several years, but in fact, they were all ordinary people who were also homesick and vulnerable.