"Don’t underestimate those who abandon the light," Murray said. "You will easily lose your life." She tightened her robe as if she wanted it to be thicker. "It’s late if you don’t need me anymore …"
When the Master of Two Instruments and the Protector left, Eigil had returned to the man one after another, which surprised some people. They quickly called several righteous people to drag it away, but most people looked at it and went back to their tents. They seemed to have expected that something like this would appear here in Rand.
When Adeline and a group of people appeared, they didn’t walk fast in their soft boots. They watched the bats being dragged away by men in white robes. They looked at each other for a long time before they came to Rand.
"There are no enemies here," Adling said slowly. "Attacks are limited to mountains. Attacks are dark friends and monsters."
"I heard them shouting’ Shamao and the Golden Bee’!" Another gunman, Jizhong, said that her head was still wrapped in a headband, and Leland couldn’t see who she was. Her voice was very young, and there were indeed some guns, Jizhong was under sixteen.
Adeling took a deep breath and put a short spear in front of Rand, and then kept this posture motionless. Others all picked up short spears. "We … I … failed in our duty," Adeling said. "We should guard this place when the human bat appeared, but we were in a hurry to participate in the spear dance like children."
"What do I need this for?" Rand asked
Adeline replied without hesitation, "We are ready to accept whatever you want to do, Kayaken, and we will never refuse."
Rand shook his head. Damn it, Eigil and their fucking righteousness. "Will you continue to guard my tent with these people? Go! " They looked at each other again before carrying out his orders, but their expressions were as reluctant as when they just walked to Rand. "You send another person to tell Ai Ling to go into the tent when I come back." He added that he didn’t plan to wait outside all night and wonder whether to let him stride on the hard rock floor to support his feet.
Yasmodine’s tent is not far from here, and there has been no sound. He lifted the curtain and bent down to go in. Yasmodine was sitting in the dark and bit his lip. When Rand appeared, he shivered and immediately said, "You don’t want my help, do you? I feel human bats, but you can deal with them. I never liked human bats. We shouldn’t have made them at all. They are more brainless than monsters. Even if they take orders, they sometimes kill the people closest to them casually. If I go out, if I do something … What if others notice? What if they find out that you didn’t guide them? I-"
"You did a good job," Rand interrupted, sitting cross-legged in the dark. "If I felt you were full of sunshine and trying to leave here tonight, I might have killed you."
The man across the street smiled with a trembling voice. "That’s what I thought."
"It was Shamao who attacked tonight. He sent those monsters and dark friends."
Shamaoo is not the kind of person who will consume his hands at will,’ Yasmodine said slowly.’ But if he deserves it, he will have no scruples about 10,000 people or 100,000 people dying. It is also possible that others want you to be Shamaoo. Even if Eigil catches the prisoner … the monster knows the killing and the dark friend believes that the master told them everything.’
"It’s him. He once tried to seduce me to attack him in the same way." Oh, light! A sound floated across the imaginary surface, and I said "I". He didn’t know where Serendaha was, except this sentence. All he knew about the place was that the word came out of his mouth so naturally.
After a long silence, Yasmodine said quietly, "I didn’t know about it yet."
"I want to know why he did this." Rand carefully chose his words, hoping that they all came from his own thoughts. He remembered Shamao’s face-not me, not my memory-that was a short, lean man with yellow hair. Julius Modine described to him all the appearances of the light-abandoners, but he knew that this image didn’t come from those who described Shamao’s always wanting to grow taller. He always hated the power and couldn’t help him do this. Yasmodine never told Lan. According to what you told me, he doesn’t want to face me unless he is sure that he can win. He will never take the slightest risk. You said that if he is willing to throw me to the dark emperor, what will he be sure that if I fight him, he will win this time?
They talked about it for hours in the dark, but they didn’t come to a conclusion. Yasmodine insisted that it was someone else who wanted Rand to deal with Shamao, so as to get rid of Shamao or Rand or let them both lose. Yasmodine said that if he did, Rand could feel the man opposite him staring at him with dark eyes and showing suspicion. That slip of the tongue just now was too big to hide.
When he finally returned to the front of his tent, dozens of gunmen, including Adrian Ling, jumped up. Everyone told him with one voice that Alwen had left and Ai Ling Da had already gone to bed. Ailinda was very angry with him, and she and Elvin were both. Then they gave him a lot of advice on how to deal with the anger of these two women, but in the face of so many women talking at the same time, Rand didn’t understand what they said. Finally, these women recovered their composure and exchanged eyes constantly, while Adrian Ling spoke to Rand alone.
"We have to talk about tonight. It’s our business, our dereliction of duty, our-"
"It’s nothing," Rand said to her. "If you must say that you are really wrong, I have forgiven and forgotten. I’m going to sleep for a while. If you want to discuss it, go to Ames or Berl! I’m sure they are whiter than me. What do you want? "Gunmen shut up in surprise and watched Rand walk into the tent.
Ailingda has fallen asleep in the blanket. She has a slender bare leg stretching blanket. Rand tries not to look at the leg or her outside. Ailingda has left a lamp that hasn’t been put out. Rand climbed into his blanket with gratitude and put out the lamp, and then Songyang tried his best. This time, he dreamed that Ailingda threw a flame that she was aiming at, not a human bat, and Shamao was sitting next to her with a grimace.
Chapter 23 I’ll give you the fifth
A grassy hill bridled the misty reins. Alwen watched Eigil’s stream of people walk through the saddle of Zhang Jia Pass and let her skirt fade to her knees. But now she didn’t pay attention to the fact that she couldn’t tidy her skirt all the time, and she wore stockings so that her legs could be covered. Tens of millions of Eigil quickly ran past her tribe. The difference between clan and warrior regiment is also mixed with their packhorses and mules. The righteous are in charge of camp logistics and others are in charge of fighting. The whole team has been lined up for a mile. More Eigil is still in the pass or has gone ahead. Alwen thinks what she sees is a national silk road in progress. It has become a road with a width of 150 feet. The hills it passes are all flattened. Elvin can occasionally see the road through the crowd, but Eigil. It seems that I prefer to run on the grass. Many paving stones have been turned up or broken. In the last twenty years, there are some farmers and a handful of cars left on this road.
It’s really exciting to see the big tree again. A tall and stout oak tree and feather wood are no longer the kind of skinny and short plants twisted and deformed by strong winds. High-density grass is covered with hills. The wind is swaying like waves. In the north, you can see real forests. Clouds are high and thin, but few are real clouds. Compared with the desert, the air here is particularly cool, pleasant, moist and fresh, but brown leaves and large brown patches on the grassland tell her that it is actually hotter and drier than this time of the year, and the other side of the dragon wall in the country of Kerry will always be like heaven.
A small stream is wider than the stream, and many dry riverbeds meander to the north with a flat bridge on it. Zhelin River should swim not far from this stream. Alwen wondered how Eigil would cope with the river. She once saw Eigil people walk to a river, and now this narrowed stream also makes the smooth Eigil team pause. Men and gunmen will stop at the bank of the river and look at it in surprise before jumping over.
When the carriage rumbled through the road, the long mule team dragged the car very hard, but it still lagged behind Eigil. It took them four days to pass through the tortuous pass. Rand obviously wanted to go as far as possible to Kerian Murui and Lan’s riding team in the few hours left during the day. Behind the box-like white carriage, they were in parallel with the second carriage. The twisted door frame was covered with canvas, which was particularly prominent compared with other special instruments. Some special instruments were carefully wrapped or loaded into the desert box and barrel. Others are made of odd-shaped metal and glass stuffed into them, a red crystal chair, nude statues of a man and a woman the size of two young children, and rods made of bones, ivory and nameless black materials with different lengths and textures. Some of his many and varied things Alwen didn’t know how to shape them. Every inch of these carriages was exhausted.
Alwen wished she knew what this two-performer paid so much attention to the second carriage. Perhaps no one else noticed that Murray focused his attention on it, which was better than the sum of his carriages. Alwen did, but she still couldn’t know why Murray did it. After the White Pagoda split, she did have some new equality with Murray, but this equality was still in a fragile pass. She once asked Murray why she would pay special attention to the second carriage. Murray told her that she had too much imagination. Spying on the words of the two ceremonies, perhaps Murray will ask the wise men to strengthen her training. Of course, she made a very sincere apology, and her submissive words seem to have really worked. Amis, they now occupy her no more than before.
About 100 Tadai tribe Fadarismai trotted through the avenue beside her. They all hung veils and wore quiver full of arrows at their waists at any time. Some people directly held their horns with arrows in their hands, and others hung short spears and round shields in their bows. As they ran, they swung rhythmically behind their team. A dozen white-robed righteous men and mules were trying to follow the team. One person in the team was wearing a black robe instead of white. That was Yi Xinde. She was also in the team. Alwen, the most difficult one, saw two or three others who were guarding the Rand camp that night when they were attacked. In addition to carrying weapons, they were holding a doll in their hands. Those dolls were roughly made in long skirts and white shirts. Their expressions were more stiff than usual and they all pretended not to take anything in their hands.
Alwen didn’t know what was going on. After the gunmen finished guarding that night, they went to Baier and Amis in droves and stayed there for a long time. The next morning, when people were still cleaning up the camp in the dark and early morning, they had already made those dolls. Of course, Alwen didn’t dare to ask the wise men what happened, but she asked Myra, one of the gunmen of Tommanle Eigil Serai clan, about it. The woman said that it was to wake her up. Myra was no longer a child. She clearly said that she didn’t want to talk about it. One of the girls with doll guns was under 16 years old, but Myra was not as big as Adeline. However, it was a depressing thing for each of them.
Every time Alwen herself is white Eigil, something will prove her wrong.
Reluctantly, her eyes turned to the pass, and the row of stakes still stood there. She just could see the place. Except for being kicked down by Eigil, the stakes extended all the way to the steep rocks on both sides. That was another signal left by Kulaiding-men and women were nailed to stakes across the pass, and they would not die until they stood for seven days. There was nothing on the right side of the pass along the hill. Murray said that this city has the remnants of its past glory, but it is still a city of considerable scale. The town is much bigger than Tyne, but now there is nothing there except those who were taken away by Shado. Maybe some people fled to the hilly area where they thought it was safe. Some farms were abandoned after Eigil War, but a town needed farms to give food. Now these farms are left with blackened farmhouse stone walls and chimney stone barns, a little burnt beams and columns, or completely collapsed houses. She and the mist must have been grazing pastures. There are still a few flies, no livestock left and no chickens left in the yard.
Kulaiding and Shadu tribes are Eigil, but so are Ai Ling Da, as well as Ber, Amis and Mailan. It is also said that Alwen reminds him of his daughter Roullac. Even though they are deeply disgusted with the practice of nailing people to wooden stakes, they still think that it is not too much to treat tree destroyers like this. Perhaps the only way to truly understand Eigil is to have a Eigil.
At last, I caught a glimpse of the destroyed town. Alwen rode slowly up the hill to the front of the coarse stone corral, and then passed through the gate of the corral with mist. At the same time, he habitually bent down and tightened the reins of the cowhide. It is ironic that Murray thought that the Serrien might go to Cullaidin’s side because they would want the Eliail invaders to fight against a dispatcher who invaded the Kerian. This is Darth’s horse thinking, but for whatever reason, this decision is obviously wrong if Cullaidin had given them a chance to make a decision.
Alwen ran along the avenue until he caught Rand. Today Rand is wearing his red coat, Ailinda, Amis, Ber, Mailan and more than 30 other wise men she didn’t know all followed him. Matt wore that big hat and held his black spear in his hand. Jacin Netta carried a harp leather case and held a scarlet flag in his hand, fluttering in the wind, but he made rapid progress. Eigil kept overtaking the team from both sides, while Rand made him walk with the spotted stallion and talked with tribal leaders about something. Although he wore skirts, the wise men could follow them to the Eigil team, but they clung to Rand like turpentine. None of the wise men ran to Alwen with one look.
"… and all the people who came with Moran," Rand said firmly, "must be informed as well." The dogs sent to monitor Tyne Rock came back and reported that Mijacoma and them entered the pass a day later. "I climbed the Dragon Wall to stop Kulaiding from ravaging this land, not to come here for looting."
"It’s a terrible message," Beo said. "It’s also for us. If you mean we can’t get that one fifth," Han and others, even Roullac, nodded.
"I’ll give you that fifth." Rand doesn’t have a high note, but his every word is suddenly sharp as a nail in the listener’s eardrum. "But it doesn’t include food. We will buy food from Yuan Ye in the future-if someone is willing to sell us food, then I’ll let the people transport it. If someone takes more than that fifth, they will take a piece of bread without paying. If someone burns down a hut, it is a tree destroyer’s house; If someone kills someone who doesn’t try to attack others, I will hang that person no matter who he is. "
"The tribes won’t like this message." Derek’s voice is almost as hard as stone. "I’m here to follow the people who came with Lebanon, not to spoil the oath." Beo and Zhelang opened their mouths as if to agree, but they both looked at each other and bit their teeth hard.
"Remember what I said about Derek," Rand said. "I came here to save this land, not to further destroy it. What I said is the same for every tribe, including Mijacoma and those who will follow me. You must remember clearly." No one spoke again this time. Landjeddin sat up straight and let the stallion pass through the tribal leaders. Eigil’s face was expressionless.
Elvin took a deep breath. All those men are old enough to be her fathers. Although they won’t admit it, they all have the status of kings, and they are also tough generals on the battlefield. It seems that only yesterday he was a boy who was much older than himself. He knew how to ask and hope, and should not give orders. He changed much faster than she understood. It would be a good thing if he could stop these people from committing atrocities committed by Culedin Tyne and Celine in his city. She told herself that she hoped he would not show increasing arrogance when doing these things. Or will he ask all two performers to do the same? She hoped that he was simply arrogant.
She wanted someone to talk to. She bent down from the stirrup and reached out to Ailinda, but the Eigil girl shook her head at her. She really didn’t like riding. Maybe those wise men who walked around her made her reluctant to ride. Some of them sighed and Alwen climbed the horse, holding the misty reins, and then pulled her skirt a little angrily. She was comfortable in knee-high Eigil soft boots, but even so, she couldn’t walk on this hard slate for long.
"He is really a ruler," she said.
Ailingda didn’t look away from Rand’s back. "I don’t know him. I can’t understand him. Look at him with that thing."
Ailingda refers to the sword Rand didn’t bring it with him. It was tied to his saddle and inserted into a simple scabbard of wild boar skin. The long hilt reached his waist and was covered with leather of the same color. This was when he was marching in the pass, he asked Taien to make the scabbard and hilt. Alwen wondered why he would do such a thing. Now he can always lead out a flame sword and do something that makes the sword look like a toy. "That’s what you gave him Ailingda."
Her friend was angry. "He also wanted me to accept the hilt. He made it. It was him, but he made it in front of me as if he wanted a sword in his hand to laugh at me."
"You’re not angry because of the sword." Alwen denied Ailinda’s anger because Ailinda didn’t say a word about it in the Rand tent that night. "You are still upset by the way he talks to you. I know he is sorry in his heart. He sometimes talks without thinking, but he wants you to make him apologize-"