"Alas, Mr. Ye, it's a shame... there was a traitor in the convoy... we were ambushed..."
Li Sen sighed heavily and began to explain.
After a long while, Ye Feng finally understood the situation.
It turned out that there was a traitor in Li Sen's convoy who colluded with the Baldy Gang... and then they were attacked. Finally, their attackers abandoned them in a place frequented by hyenas, intending for them to be eaten alive from behind...
"Li Sen, you just said someone injected you with a needle, and then you couldn't use your arcane energy?"
At this moment, Ye Feng asked a crucial piece of information.
"Yes!"
Li Sen nodded, "It's the first time I've encountered this. The opponent doesn't seem to be from Sand Dune, but rather an outsider explorer, also an arcane energy cultivator, and quite powerful!"
"There were two of them, one with fire-attribute arcane energy, and one with earth-attribute..."
"One of them was carrying a kerosene lamp, and the other had a large, bulbous nose!"
Li Sen quickly explained to Ye Feng.
"Damn... this description..."
Ye Feng was speechless.
Due to these two very obvious characteristics, coupled with the fire and earth attributes of arcane energy, he couldn't help but think of Mei You and Bi Mao, whom he had encountered in Desperate City.
"Speaking of which, Jiang Si Shan seemed to have followed them here. I wonder how he's doing!" Ye Feng muttered to himself.
"By the way, Mr. Ye, you might need to be careful!"
At this moment, Qi Qu Dan walked over and spoke to Ye Feng.
"Be careful? What's going on?"
Ye Feng frowned slightly and looked at Qi Qu Dan.
"It's like this, the two arcane energy cultivators who attacked us seem to have a strong hatred for anyone named 'Ye Feng'!"
"They gritted their teeth when they mentioned the name... and someone with a similar-sounding name was killed by them in their frustration..."
Qi Qu Dan scratched his head and replied.
"It seems to be those two, Mei You and Bi Mao!"
Hearing this, Ye Feng was about eighty to ninety percent sure.
"Captain, we've checked. Except for us, all the other brothers..."
At this moment, a convoy member ran over to Li Sen, his expression filled with grief.
"Mr. Ye, I..."
"Go ahead!"
Before Li Sen could finish speaking, Ye Feng waved his hand, signaling him to handle the bodies of his subordinates.
"By the way, Qi Qu Dan, come here, I have something to ask you!"
Ye Feng called out to Qi Qu Dan, who was about to leave.
"Mr. Ye, please speak!"
Qi Qu Dan felt somewhat fortunate at this moment, realizing that his years of persistence had not been in vain.
As long as the price was right, he would definitely provide reliable information, unlike others who cheated and swindled...
Otherwise, he would have ended up as food for the hyenas today!
"Oh, come here and look at this map..."
...
About half an hour later,
Li Sen had finally finished dealing with the bodies of his subordinates, and Ye Feng had also almost finished his consultation with Qi Qu Dan.
"You're saying that from the Super Sandstorm Zone to near the Ocean Paradise, there used to be a large river?"
Ye Feng pointed to a spot on the map and asked Qi Qu Dan.
"Yes!"
Qi Qu Dan nodded, "Although it's been almost twenty years, I'm sure I drifted normally along this river before... Afterwards, the drought became more and more severe... and that river disappeared... Now, even the riverbed has turned to sand..."
"Is that so~!"
Ye Feng looked at the map in his hand, lost in thought.
"Uncle Dan, we've finished tidying up the bodies of the convoy members. Uncle Li asked you to come over and say goodbye to the brothers!"
At this moment, the surviving convoy member ran over and spoke to Qi Qu Dan.
Qi Qu Dan did not reply, but looked at Ye Feng with a questioning gaze.
"Go ahead!"
Ye Feng nodded.
Upon hearing this, Qi Qu Dan immediately turned and walked towards Li Sen.
Pausing for a moment, Ye Feng took out a pack of cigarettes and followed them. After all, he knew the people from Li Sen's convoy, though not very well.
"Li Sen, you guys are..."
Walking behind the almost wrecked water tanker, Ye Feng couldn't help but be taken aback.
He had originally thought that Li Sen and the others, when they said they were tidying up the bodies, meant organizing them and burying them. He took out cigarettes to do something akin to burning incense.
But Li Sen and the others had piled the bodies of the convoy members together and were pouring gasoline on them, as if preparing to burn them...
"Mr. Ye, given our current situation, we absolutely cannot transport the bodies of the brothers back. And in this hot weather, the bodies will..."
"Burying them here is also not suitable. This is hyena territory. If we bury them, those beasts will dig up the bodies of our brothers..."
"I don't want my brothers, who didn't enjoy any fortune with me, to be defiled by beasts after death, so I'd rather burn them!"
As if sensing Ye Feng's confusion, Li Sen quickly explained.
"A fire to take everything away, this is also the fate of most explorers in Sand Dune..."
Qi Qu Dan sighed and added.
"Then... that's fine!"
In this scene, coupled with their words, Ye Feng couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness.
A group of people who were laughing and joking just a few days ago, and in the blink of an eye... perhaps this is the apocalypse...
"I have a pack of cigarettes here. Let's light them and consider it as burning incense for them!"
Ye Feng unpacked the cigarettes and handed them to Li Sen and the other two.
"Hurry up, you little brat! We're almost there. I'll show you the miserable deaths of Li Sen's useless people!"
Suddenly, a middle-aged man's cursing voice reached Ye Feng and the others.
"You little punk, hurry up! Your Uncle Li Sen and your brothers and sisters will have their bones gnawed by hyenas!"
At this moment, the middle-aged man's voice sounded again.
Then, a staggering figure appeared in Ye Feng and the others' line of sight from behind a sand dune. It was a young man with multiple injuries all over his body, his expression filled with grief and hatred.
Behind the young man was a middle-aged man holding an M4 assault rifle and continuously cursing.
"It's Xiao Lang!"
Upon seeing the young man, Li Sen was somewhat surprised, then his expression changed.
"You little punk, look clearly, old man Li Sen is already..."
The middle-aged man stopped mid-sentence because he saw Li Sen and Qi Qu Dan alive...
"Beast!"
"Chen Jia Ye, you dare to come back!"
Upon seeing the middle-aged man with the hunting rifle, Li Sen and Qi Qu Dan both shouted angrily.
"I..."
Chen Jia Ye was slightly stunned, and after a second of surprise and even fear, he quickly calmed down, then looked at Li Sen and the others with a mocking and smug expression.
This was because he held an M4 assault rifle, while Li Sen, Qi Qu Dan, and the others had no weapons.
"You two old geezers are still alive? I was planning to search for supplies from you, but now it's perfect, I'll send you on your way together!"
Chen Jia Ye sneered.
Hearing this, Li Sen and Qi Qu Dan's faces turned extremely grim.
Because they had just gone through a great ordeal, their lives were hanging by a thread, and the deaths of their brothers had been a severe blow to their spirits. After being saved by Ye Feng from the hyenas' jaws, the two of them subconsciously developed a strong sense of trust in Ye Feng... and for a moment, they didn't even consider carrying any weapons...
"Hey!"
As Ye Feng's voice fell, Chen Jia Ye's pig-like scream rang out.
"Ah~!"
...