This is indeed a land without belonging, it is not conspicuous on the map, there is only a small strip, according to the scale of the map, the width is only a dozen kilometers, but this land is very narrow and long, sandwiched between the Longyuan Empire and the Nanxiang Kingdom, roughly calculated, the length is more than 100 kilometers, so if you calculate it, the area is not small.

Although such a land is not an inconspicuous place even for a small principality like Nanxiang Kingdom, this is an ownerless land, which is very strange.

Under the shape of the seven great empires of the Human Continent competing for hegemony, there is actually an ownerless ground on the border of the huge Longyuan Empire, this is not fat meat that is defeated in the mouth, how can there be a reason not to eat it?

Tian Xian looked at Tu Ge with a strange face, "What kind of place is this, why doesn't it belong?"

Tu Ge thought that Tian Xian should know, after all, this was not a difficult situation to understand, but seeing Tian Xian asking like this, and he really looked puzzled, he seemed to be very puzzled, so he replied: "This is a legacy area, on the human continent, only around the Longyuan Empire often has such a blank area. ”

"Legacy area?" Tianxian winked.

"It's the territory that was voluntarily abandoned. Tu Ge's eyes were a little gloomy, the various tribes of the Eastern Kingdom fought to the death for the territory suitable for survival, but in the Human Continent, such a large area of fertile land was idle, "The Longyuan Empire is a very strange country, very powerful, and proficient in some strange spells left over from ancient times, such as divination, alchemy, and even mysterious curses can find traces in this country, and each generation of Longyuan Emperors is also ambitious. The territory is constantly expanding, but after each generation of emperors expands, they will leave a lot of these legacy areas on the border, completely cutting off the border from some countries. ”

"Why?"

"Well...... Maybe it's because I'm afraid of trouble!" Arion's lazy voice came from behind Tian Xian.

Tianxian suddenly remembered that if he wanted to ask about this, the best person would naturally be the prince of Nanxiang behind him.

Smiling, Tian Xian asked curiously: "Other countries are trying to expand, this place is not small, and according to Tu Ge, there are many such areas. What trouble is the Longyuan Empire afraid of? Will give up so many territories?"

Arion smacked his lips, his eyes showing a bit of disapproval, and replied, "Because they don't want to go to war with some countries, they just set aside the quarantine belt." I don't even have borders with you. Even the contact with each other is very little. In a nutshell...... It is arrogant and disdainful of the countries on the other side of the separation zone. ”

Tianxian's eyes were even more strange, "You Nanxiang...... Isn't it supposed to be very close to the Dragon Yuan Empire?"

Arion glanced at Tian Xian. That look seemed to say that you are really an idiot, "We are indeed a principality attached to the Longyuan Empire, but this is only the relationship between the monarch and the minister, in this form of the continent, the king doesn't want to kill you, what else do you want?"

Tianxian suddenly understood, what the Longyuan Empire meant: If I ignore you, you will stay in peace, if you are not honest, I will destroy you......

That's a bit overbearing......

"But......" Tianxian was still puzzled, "don't they want to win you over......?"

Arion snorted, obviously resentful of this, "This is what I call arrogance! They don't think there is any need to communicate with a small country like us, such a legacy area almost cuts off our way to the Longyuan Empire, they can come and order us directly if they have something, these bastards ......"

Tian Xian was stunned for a moment, "What?

Look at the ground in front of you, there is not much difference between this and other places in Nanxiang Country, it is still a green field, there are many woods on both sides of the road, and some of them are very dense, "Could it be that they have set up a checkpoint on the border to prevent you from passing guò!"

Arion said with a calm face: "Of course not, but this legacy area itself is a natural barrier, and if you want to pass through, hehe...... It's not an easy task!"

Tian Xian couldn't help but look forward twice, and there seemed to be nothing in this peaceful natural scenery that could become an obstacle.

Arion was well aware of Tianxian's current doubts, and continued: "This area was given up by the Longyuan Empire on its own initiative, but we naturally dare not take it over, and this ownerless place, after a long time, will naturally gather some homeless and displaced guys, and it is also a good place for hunted criminals to hide, there is no belonging here, and no one dares to occupy here, it is completely a gray area, and all kinds of people pour into here every year, and there are too many to count." ”

Looking at the clean avenue in front of him, Arion smiled: "This is just out of Nanxiang Country, the soldiers on the border fortress can still take care of here, and when you go further, the scene will not be like this." ”

"Is there any danger?" Tian Xian was stunned for a moment, and suddenly became alert.

Arion smiled, "The guys here have no belonging, and they are not bound by other countries, they do things according to their own rules, robbing passers-by is an important means for them to make a fortune, and some outlaws don't even let go of the envoys of the Longyuan Empire."

Tian Xian's eyes widened, so to speak, isn't this a chaotic area where there are no three things!

"But don't worry, we'll be fine. Arion looked at Ash, "With this big guy here, those guys who don't have any skills, and those who just want to get rich don't dare to provoke us." ”

The team continued to move forward, for the sake of safety, Tianxian did not let Xiao Ash go to the sky again, and directly let it follow the team on the ground, although Huoyunyan is not very good at crawling on the ground at all, after all, it is quite laborious for this dozens of tons of big guys to crawl around with their buttocks, but at this time, Tian Xian can't care so much, anyway, when he was in the Silent Forest, Xiao Ash followed the adventure group on the ground for a long time, and he didn't see anything uncomfortable about it.

But Xiao Ash is also quite excited, probably just like people yearn for the sky, in fact, these giant beasts flying like the wind in the sky. In fact, I really want to be able to run wildly on the ground, but a standard alien wyvern like Xiao Gray probably doesn't have to count on this in this life.

After the team had walked a few miles, Arion's words were immediately confirmed.

The woods on both sides of the road suddenly began to disappear in large areas, replaced by large areas of farmland, and the current time is the winter moon at the end of the year on the human continent, but Nanxiang Country is located on the South China Sea, the climate is warm and humid, and there are still grains growing in the fields.

However, it is not the turban that works in the fields. Wear a small gown. The rustic farmer covered in swarthy clothes glanced at the past, and his vigilance was raised, those who worked in the fields. All of them have fierce faces. A man with a strong body. This kind of body shape is not done by doing farm work, and the horizontal flesh is clearly practiced by regular exercise and wielding a sword.

And each of them carries a weapon with him.

In the field. There are also a lot of idle people, they get together in twos and threes, but obviously they are distinct, each group of people is not close to each other, these people are either chatting, or gambling on the dice, but no matter what they do, there are always swords around them, and they all don't seem to be good at stubble.

If a place even has a farmer who plows the fields and a gangster, then this place is definitely not a gathering place for law-abiding, hard-working, kind and good citizens.

As soon as the group appeared, they immediately attracted the attention of those in the fields on both sides of the road, whether they were plowing the fields or those who were idle, they cast a bunch of eyes, and these eyes were all full of vigilance and hostility.

However, when they saw Little Ash, everyone's faces turned pale, and this kind of giant beast that spread its wings and covered the entire road was terrifying.

Tian Xian noticed that these people were actually very poorly dressed, and almost all of them were unkempt, there were some simple wooden houses in the farmland, there were pots and stoves, buckets and other living utensils in front of the wooden houses, most of them were piled up with high firewood piles behind the wooden houses, and there were women making fires and cooking in front of the wooden houses, obviously this was not the hut where they lived temporarily, they had been living here.

Many people in the field began to run back quickly along the path, the speed was to deliver the news to somewhere, and the rest of the people looked at the group for a while, and then retracted their gaze, and what should they do.

But Tianxian felt that their eyes would glance at them from time to time, and they seemed to have a little bad intentions.

"Don't worry about them. ”

Arion is very confident, "They are all bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, with this fire cloud, we will not be harassed, although they are hateful, but also pitiful, if there is a way out, no one will run to this place where there is nothing to suffer, their own safety is not guaranteed, and they will often be hunted down by the imperial soldiers." ”

"Will the Longyuan Empire take care of things here?"

"Yes! After all, this is actually their control area. Arion pointed to the people in the fields, "See them? These people are the richest here, because they have food, and food is a precious resource here, after all, not everyone can hunt those big beasts and monsters, and there are no large settlements here, it is not easy to trade food, and the price of food will go up." ”

"Why isn't there a settlement?" Tian Xian wondered, "I just saw a river, and the farmland here is also because of that river, if there is a water source and a food production area, it is natural to form a settlement?"

Arion couldn't help but glance at Tian Xian, "Brother Tian is well-informed, but unfortunately it can't be done here, once the gathering place exceeds the scale recognized by the empire......"

Arion paused, "It will be cleansed!"

Tianxian's eyelids jumped, "Clean!?"

"Hmm...... In other words, kill them all!"

"This ......"

Arion was not surprised at all and said: "This is normal, just like when I was in chaos, a street boss will not tolerate many people gathering on his street to survive, once a large gathering place is formed, there will be villages, towns, cities, leaders, and even ...... There can be no group movement here, because this is the remnant area controlled by the Longyuan Empire. ”

Silent days, indeed...... If there is an organization or even a micro-country here, it is definitely not something that the Longyuan Empire wants to see.

The team walked further, and finally saw some clearing in the middle of the large farmland, where a few wooden houses were poked here and there, but even the most were seven or eight. After walking a few kilometers away, it is true that as Arion said, he did not see any large settlements.

Suddenly, there was a scream from the front.

A naked man with a lot of blood on his body rushed out of a small house on the side of the road, holding a naked woman in one hand and crying incessantly, and a human head in the other.

The man's head, still dripping blood, was at the door of the big house. Backwards were the headless corpse of a man. A little boy with a pale face who looked to be about four or five years old sat next to the male corpse, dazed, as if he had not yet realized what was happening.

The naked man rushed out of the house. It just rushed in front of the small team of Tianxian. At a glance, he saw a huge fire cloud eye. Suddenly frightened, he almost threw away the woman and the head in his hand, but he was quite bold. Although he was frightened for a moment, his face quickly recovered, and he snorted at the people of Tianxian, strode towards a wooden house in the field opposite, and then closed the door with a "bang".

Then there was the sound of a man laughing and a woman crying out in the hut.

In broad daylight, he actually killed people and took his wife, and he blatantly committed adultery! Tian Xian didn't think that he was a good person, but this kind of thing was right in front of him, how could he be regarded as invisible! Immediately, his eyes were fixed, and he was about to leave.

"Brother Tian, you still don't care about this matter. ”

Arion directly stopped Tianxian and warned very seriously: "I said that everything here is done according to the rules here, and there are no imperial laws to speak of. ”

Tianxian immediately looked cold, "Get out of the way!"

Arion shook his head, "Brother Tian, you can't see it, in fact, that woman is a man who is actually in a group." ”

"What?"

"Look......" Arion pointed to the headless corpse, he had a knife wound on his body, but it was obviously not the knife, he screamed before he died, he couldn't scream if his head was cut off, he should have been beaten in the back when he was fighting with the bare-ass man, you say...... Who could do this?"

Tianxian's face couldn't help but darken...... Suddenly, I remembered that there were also a lot of blood stains on the woman's body, which were all splashed......

"But ......" Tianxian's tone softened.

"The reason why she cried should be that the man's condition was better than this man's, you see...... Their house can be seen as a clue. ”

The headless man's house was very large, and there were many fields around it, and there were several stompings of firewood around the house, and there were animal skins and grains on the roof, and it seemed that life was good, but on the other side, the bare-ass man was bare around the house, and he seemed to be a brave and ruthless, but very lazy fellow.

The corner of Tianxian's eyes jumped, this is murdering her husband with her lover!

Arion shook his head, "Brother Tian, this kind of thing is very common here, there are very few women here, men want women to rob, whoever grabs it is whoever, no one will care, even if it kills someone, it is normal, you have to understand, there is no royal law here, and ...... There are no morals either!"

Tian Xian glanced at the wooden house not far away, and now there was a woman's fornication cry inside, and he couldn't help frowning slightly, "Let's go!"

Before he had gone far, a dozen children suddenly rushed out of a muddy field on the side of the road, all of whom looked to be four or five years old, both boys and girls were naked, and these children were not afraid of Xiao Ash, and they hugged each other.

"Sir, give me something to eat!"

"This old man, it's good! give me some money!"

"Just a little money!"

"Master, I haven't eaten for three days!"

"Five days for me!"

"I haven't seen any money in a month!"

These children huddled together, blocked on the road and refused to go, scrambling to reach out to Tian Xian, because Tian Xian walked in front of the team, it seemed like he had the final say, and these children immediately surrounded Tian Xian.

Tianxian was stunned for a moment, these children seemed to be only four or five years old, and the older ones were only seven or eight years old, in fact...... It's about the same age as Tianxian, and Tianxian is just eleven years old, but his body is tall and sturdy, and he looks like he is thirteen or fourteen years old.

Looking at these yellow-skinned and thin-skinned children, who were only a few years younger than themselves, almost crying and begging for money and food around him, Tianxian was really a little confused, even if he had never seen this battle in his previous life.

"Smack!!"

Tian Xian was startled, because Arion did not hesitate to reach out his hand and slapped a child who had come to him in the face, the one who was five or six years old, was hit by this slap and fell straight down.

"What are you doing?" Tian Xian grabbed Arion's hand, his face full of anger!

At this moment, the group of children suddenly shouted loudly, and the words of pleading were still in their mouths, but they rushed up and pounced directly.

"You ...... What are you doing!?" Tianxian was stunned, the two children had already hugged their waists, and the other two directly put their hands into Tianxian's arms!

Robbery!

Tianxian didn't expect that a group of five or six-year-old children, who were pitiful just now, would become thugs in an instant.

Contrary to the heart trick at will, a scorching breath exploded on Tianxian's body, and the children who rushed up to prepare to search Tianxian suddenly screamed and retreated from the shock of this breath.

The antenna didn't dare to hit hard, these are malnourished children, if they were a little heavier, maybe they would have died.

However, what Tianxian didn't expect was that these children were knocked back, and after seeing that they were obviously capable of killing them, they actually pounced again, but this time there were obviously fewer children who pounced, and most of the children turned their targets to Arion on the side.

With preparation, Tianxian will naturally not be approached by these little guys who are not even hairy children, or push or block, and knock them all down by dividing them by two, and none of them were injured.

These children rushed up, and it took only more than ten seconds before and after, and I don't know which one shouted, so they scattered directly, and ran away in an instant, all of which disappeared from the farmland.

These little robbers stamped their feet with hatred, turned their heads to look, and were stunned for a moment.

There were only two people in front of the team, Tianxian and Arion, and Tianxian didn't hurt a single hair on his body, but Arion ......

He's almost naked now......

In just a dozen seconds, Arion, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, was stripped naked by a group of children who were only one-third of his age......

Now only some strips of cloth were still hanging on his body, and looking at the fractures of those strips, it was obvious that they had been cut with a sharp blade......

Are these bare-bottomed kids hiding blades in their hair? Tianxian's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

The only thing that was still intact on Arion's body was the black cloth bag he held in his arms, where his most important treasure was the xylophone.

"Hey......"

Arion sighed, looking at his miserable appearance, he could only smile bitterly, "Brother Tian, now you know what kind of place this is, right? Those little robbers are the most powerful here, most of the pedestrians will not guard against them, and will give them things, but as long as you show a little flaw, they will immediately rush up and rob you of your essence!"

Tian Xian was embarrassed, just now Arion obviously realized that something was wrong, this time he did it, but he grabbed him, and now he is intact, but he has a good chance......

"That...... Anyway, let's find a set of clothes first. Tian Xian hurriedly jumped on Little Ash to look for clothes.

Among the huge bone spurs behind Xiao Ash, there are several wooden barrels tied to it, which are the travel supplies purchased before the day is free, and there is no shortage of clothes or anything.

However, Tian Xian was secretly frightened, Arion's outfit was a standard Nanxiang country safari adventurer's equipment, the leather armor-like beast could not be caught, and the other clothes on his body were also quite defensive, which was discovered when he was injured, but he didn't expect that it was only a dozen seconds, and those children would pick up such a hardcover travel adventurer.

It's a school of piranhas!(To be continued......)