Chapter 293 – The City and the Lord (2/2)

After the team set off again, they traveled for two more days. Sometimes when they couldn’t find a suitable place to rest, they would just rest in the sand. They also encountered some nocturnal desert beasts and lost four people to those beasts. Those four people were dragged into the sand and couldn’t be found after that.

On the fifth day since they stepped into the desert, the team moved on under the sunlight. Compared with the travelling teams that Shao Xuan once saw, this team was a real demon.

The scorching and dry air waves raged over the boundless desert.

It was blowing a monstrous gale.

The sand was heaped up into dunes.

Not far, on the high hills, some sand was blown up and it flew across the mountain ridge.

The main body of such tall sand dunes may have existed for hundreds, thousands of years, and possibly even longer.

“Look, there are people over there!” shouted someone.

Looking at the direction, they found a tall hill in the distance. Above the ridge, a group of people were walking with camels.

“Who are they? The slaves of the city?”

“I can’t see clearly. But look at the direction they are going, shouldn’t it be towards Fallen Leaves City?” said someone.

“Forget it, keep going, we’ll arrive soon.” said an elderly person.

When encountering slaves, as long as the slave masters did not take the initiative to pick a fight, the people in the travelling team did not fight against them. They wished to save their energy and didn’t want to spend more effort on handling those slaves.

As they continued to move forward, Shao Xuan found that the team was heading in the same direction as the other group was and his camel also became excited.

“Want to be with those camels?” Shao Xuan pulled the excited camel back and prevented it from going forward.

There seemed to be some unique flavors in the air that drifted with the wind. The camel nearby got more excited, and seemed to want to run straight forward rather than towards the direction of that group.

“Are we now closer to Fallen Leaves City?” Lei also smelled the flavors in the air. Because of frequent hunting trips, he was very sensitive to odors.

In addition to different odors, there were some sounds.

Going over another hill, Shao Xuan saw the destination of their trip, Fallen Leaves City.

At the moment, the sun was setting towards the horizon.

The orange sunset shone on the vast desert. While looking ahead, they found plenty of leaves the same color as the sunset.

Orange trees, orange sunset, and the desert city dyed by the setting sun.

It’s said that the trees largest in number in the Fallen Leaves City was the Sunset Tree. It attained such a name because the color of its leaves was similar to the setting sun and the color never changed throughout the year. What’s more, the symbol of Fallen Leaves City was the Sunset Tree.

It’s said that the Sunset Tree wouldn’t die before it lived a thousand years. What’s more, it would not fall to the ground before it remained dead for a thousand years, and would not rot before a thousand years pa.s.sed since it fell. Everyone had heard these rumours but no one knew the truth. However, when one looked around, they could indeed find a large amount of Sunset Trees in the Fallen Leaves City, which made people feel cool. During the past few days they walked in the desert, it was rare to see so many plants – there was nothing except sand and rocks.

Apart from those Sunset Trees, there were some unknown gra.s.ses around the city, but not many. No wonder the camel became so excited. It had noticed its feed.

In addition to those trees with the color of the setting sun, a tall building could also be observed when the team stood on the sand dunes and overlooked the Fallen Leaves City.

Huge stones were based like a pyramid below the building, with houses built above.

“The highest place in the Fallen Leaves City is where the Lord lives.” said an elder of the Hui tribe.

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