Rebirth of the Viking King

Chapter 486 5 The Dilemma of the Caravan

In the following days, the yellow sand falling in the sky still did not stop.

The yellow sand falling vertically from the sky makes the visibility of the human eye only 2 meters in front, and beyond the distance of 2 meters, it is a deep yellow chaos.

Every day, Old Hash would take out the compass he bought from Tang Ren at a high price. The amazing thing is that the magnetic needle can correctly identify the direction only at night.

When the sun rises, the compass often moves aimlessly.

Loki lived with this group of Arabs in this abandoned temple every day, and his life was not bad. Ever since he vaguely recognized his identity, Old Harsh had been generous to him.

Not only did he invite him to live with the management staff of the horse team, but he was also given plenty of food and drinks every day.

However, after living in this abandoned temple for a week, the yellow sand falling from the sky still showed no intention of stopping.

Loki could feel Old Harsh's growing agitation.

Finally on the eighth day, a scholarly Arab bearded man in the team found Old Hash holding a poorly bound notebook.

After many days of interaction, Loki knew that this was the secretary of the caravan.

He didn't shy away from it in front of Loki, opened the notebook directly, and began to talk about his worries.

"Master Harsh, I have brought you bad news again. According to my calculations, we will set off tonight at the latest!"

"Although food and water are enough to support us, time is not our friend!"

"If we don't leave, not only will we not be able to pick up the Byzantine scholars who are waiting for us in Memphis, but even the red goods in the three villages may be sold out by the 'Wrangel Caravan' and 'Charlemagne Caravan' who arrived first. .When we get there after all the hard work, there will be nothing left.”

Harsh looked at the burning campfire, his eyebrows furrowed into a frown.

Having walked this route for half his life, he certainly understood what the secretary meant. Let’s not talk about the goods sold in the villages in the Black Desert. The most important thing in this trip is to establish a relationship with the “Royal Academy of Byzantine Sciences”.

The status of the Royal Academy of Sciences has grown steadily in recent years.

Years of war in the Eastern Continent of the Tang Dynasty caused a large number of Tang scholars who were hiding among the people to flee to the Western Continent in search of a more stable workplace. And the Royal Academy of Sciences, which has made a lot of gold and silver by using the stable route of the "New World" in the past decade or so, naturally treats them like VIPs.

Reasonable exchanges between the East and the West have enabled bachelors from both sides to make great progress in engineering, machinery, architecture and various crafts.

Byzantine King Michael III increased the research budget of the Royal Academy of Sciences year after year.

This group of bachelors is no longer as poor as it was more than ten years ago.

Their pockets are quite full.

If his caravan can serve this group of wealthy bachelors well this time. Taking a few bachelors into the Black Desert on every trip from now on is equivalent to having a fairly stable additional income.

With the rapid development of the Royal Academy of Sciences in recent years, this income will only increase. It is even possible that it will surpass resold goods in the future!

Now, the problem that the "Hash Horse Gang" needs to face is: they must enter the ancient desert city of Memphis in 12 days.

Because the best time with the Bachelors is in 12 days.

If maesters do not wait for Harsh's caravan, they join someone else's cavalry or simply go home and lose a large potential future investment.

"It's good to enjoy the shade under a big tree" is the most basic principle of doing business. If you can do business with the big places funded by the state, you can always make a lot of money.

For Harsh, an old fox, he has to fight hard even for his four sons and 12 grandsons to gain admission to the Royal Academy of Sciences.

But then again.

Although the golden dinar is valuable, before you put it in your pocket, you still need to have the life flower.

Going out on the road in a sandstorm with visibility less than 2 meters is a complete gamble. In this desert, the compass can only be used at night. However, even though this is the outskirts of the Sahara Desert, walking in a sandstorm at night is still difficult to see.

It is normal for members to disappear inexplicably.

Even after walking for three days, it was not surprising that the whole team gradually fell apart and each was lost in the yellow sand.

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"Well why don't you just walk along the dry riverbed?"

After watching their gloomy discussion for a long time, Loki finally expressed his doubts.

All cities in ancient Egypt followed the direction of the Nile River and were built dotted around the river. This strong river on the African continent floods once a year in early summer, and the water that spreads out of the riverbed nourishes the land on both sides, making it easier to farm.

It is precisely because of this characteristic that the ancients were able to grow a large number of crops even though farming technology was not developed.

The ancient Egyptian city-state could only be built in such a primitive era in 4000 BC. All of this is inseparable from the Nile River that raised them and gave them food and water.

Although Loki does not know much about the history of ancient Egypt, this map still clearly shows that the first destination of the caravan's journey, "Memphis", is on the edge of the Nile.

This was the dry season. As long as they followed the dry riverbed, they didn't need to rely on a compass, and they didn't have to worry about members getting lost because they couldn't see the direction clearly.

However, as soon as his suggestion was made, it immediately attracted the merciless ridicule of the Arab bearded men around him.

"Hehe, this lord." The bearded clerk looked at him with a mocking expression, and his face, which had not been washed for many days, looked like an old walnut soaked in oil for three days.

"You are a noble lord who is high above, so naturally you will not understand the pain of our group of poor brothers."

"Don't look at our team. There are 40 short-legged horses and 20 carriages. This scale is not bad among the caravans, but compared with the large caravans in Constantinople, Jerusalem or the Tang Dynasty in the East, it is not at the same level at all."

"In the city, under the eyes of the citizens and the guards. They wear colorful thick robes, drink green tea with exquisite porcelain, and are more civilized than one person."

"But once they are in the uninhabited wilderness, these guys will immediately return to their cannibalistic nature!"

His voice became low, and the caravan brothers around him nodded one after another.

Loki immediately understood the murderous intent hidden in these plain words.

Morality of mortals mostly only works when supervised by their peers. Once you enter the deserted wilderness from the crowded city, the two illusory words "morality" are simply things that can be discarded at any time compared to the carts of goods.

We have reached the center of the desert, and the most difficult journey has been completed by 80%. On the road that is about to approach Memphis to turn the goods into commodities, who would refuse to add dozens of more carts of goods?

After killing all the people in the caravan, take away their supplies, and don't worry about them being able to escape from the desert on their own two legs.

There is simply no better place to murder in the world.

But don't forget that even after 13 years, this is still the dark Middle Ages.

In this land, the law of the jungle represents everything.

Human life has no value at all in this era.