After hearing what Sambik said, Laf basically understood that they had no other choice but to deliver the letter and get a reply, or be killed by those officials.
You must know that the Arab Empire is also very good at managing its officials. If something like this happens, if you don't kill the person who delivered the letter to show your determination, then you have already become acquainted with the enemy. When the time comes to settle the accounts, local officials like you will not have a good life. Therefore, the two people who delivered the letter are bound to die.
Now the north of Beidaying is controlled by the Tang army, and you don’t know where to run. So after receiving this task, the two of you have to complete the task honestly. Either you two find a place to hide your identities, or you have to complete this task. But I’m afraid no one has the ability to live in the desert in hiding.
Of course, the desert bandits were an exception. But do you know how those bandits lived? They had a fixed daily food and drink allowance. If they exceeded that, they wouldn't be able to survive. That kind of life was practically hell, and no one would want to live like that. So, after discussing it, the two brothers decided to go to their destination to deliver the letter.
Just as the two brothers were confused, the other messengers were also thinking the same thing. They didn't know how to explain this mission. They didn't need to train, but how many dangers would there be along the way? How much danger would there be after delivering the letter? They had all thought it through very clearly.
If they were to choose, perhaps staying in the original camp for training would be the best, but the higher-ups chose these people for a reason. You all have been able to survive along the way, which means you have experience in making a living in the wild. If we don't use such people, wouldn't that mean we have a problem with our brains?
The city of Jedla soon appeared in the sight of the two men. After all, the journey was not very far. If it were someone else, they might get lost and never reach the destination. However, these two men were able to survive in such a harsh environment and identify directions in the desert, which could be said to be the simplest skill.
After a great war and a wave of refugees, this place can no longer be considered a city. It is just a gathering point surrounded by several earthen walls, with various tents scattered around. Originally there were houses here, but after fires and various destructions, the tops of the houses can no longer be seen.
Open-air houses may not be seen in other places, but they are everywhere in places like this. After the people return, they can only make do with their lives, after all, no one rebuilds their homes for them.
"It looks like there are still soldiers on the earthen wall over there. Didn't they say there are no more armed forces here? Could it be that there is an army here again? If there really is an organized army, then we two should run away quickly."
Sambik said with some concern that delivering letters also requires skills. If there were regular troops here, then you two would definitely be beheaded. But if it was a temporarily recruited army, these people only needed to eat, and other things were not important. This would allow us to survive.
Sambik's worries were justified, and Laf quickly tightened his rope. He was going to escape soon, and if he couldn't run away, he would be doomed here.
We passed many houses along the way and saw that these people did not have the strength to stand up. It was obvious that these guys were no longer able to do it. If they still had the strength, and a stranger passed by, even if you did not go over to talk, you should stand up to see who it was. But these people had no intention of doing so at all. From this, it can be seen that these people are just waiting here to die, and they no longer have any intention of struggling.
After the two men walked in, they saw clearly that they were not regular soldiers. They also came from the regular army. They could tell what these soldiers were like at a glance. Just by looking at their clothes, they knew that they must have temporarily become the army of the Arab Empire in order to get a bite to eat.
If it were a few days ago, the two might have felt a little sad. After all, they were from the Arab Empire. Seeing their country's army become like this, they felt a little uncomfortable in their hearts. But now they don't have that idea anymore. The two of them are just thinking about completing the task as soon as possible. As for those things in the future, they don't matter.
"We are Prince Landing's men, and we have been ordered to deliver a message to your lord."
Sambik walked over bravely. The two men hid the camels outside the city. These things were the most important nowadays. If you were not careful, these people would directly snatch your camels. They didn't care who you were. In such a place, camels were everyone's life.
Originally, everyone had their own camel. Even if you didn't have one, you could use a landlord's camel if you worked for him. But after a disaster, the number of camels decreased sharply, whether for landlords or ordinary people, and the number of wild camels in the desert increased instead.
Of course, the camels that ran into the desert were relatively lucky. Most of them were killed by the refugees. In the Arab world, they have been told from ancient times to the present that no matter how miserable you are, you cannot kill your camels. For those wise men, this is just a sentence.
But for all the refugees, this was more than just a simple question. They didn't want to kill their camels, but the question was, how could they survive without killing them? Would they have to eat their own flesh? That was definitely impossible. So the camels were their chance to survive, and these people didn't care about that anymore.
Prince Landing?
The two gatekeepers looked at each other. Although they were both civilians who were temporarily transformed into soldiers, they had also heard of this person. It was said that he led an army of nearly 100,000 to the north to fight. Some people said that he had won the battle a few days ago, while others said that he was directly defeated. I wonder what message he came to deliver?
All the government agencies in the northern part of the Arab Empire had just been established, so most people didn't know what was going on. As for the news in the surrounding areas, they didn't know much and could only rely on passing merchants to tell them.
