In the unofficial history, it said that at the beginning of the establishment of the Central First Empire, there was a tragic conspiracy. The Mu family, the founder of the empire, was slaughtered by the government. Only the crown prince of the empire, Mu Clear, escaped disaster and went missing from then on!
However, there were very few people who knew about this secret history. Two hundred years had passed in the blink of an eye, and the First Empire had become more and more prosperous. No one mentioned this past again, and no one remembered the Mu Clan, which was once the founder of the Empire!
Last night, there was lightning and thunder, and it was windy and rainy. In the morning, Su Junbao woke up early. Looking outside the tent, the rain finally stopped!
It was really not a pleasant thing to encounter a storm on the way. Last night, they hid under a cliff and barely survived the night.
"Su Junbao, when you wake up, go and help. Bring those things into the car. Let's go earlier!"
As soon as Su Junbao walked out of the tent, a tall woman gave him an order.
Her name was Li Ya, and she was the leader of the mercenary group where Su Jun Bao lived. Their mercenary group was responsible for escorting merchants!
After being urged, Su Junbao nodded and walked straight out of the camp. He had to find a place to row up the stock in his belly first.
Li Ya glanced at him and then looked away!
Strictly speaking, this boy didn't belong to their mercenary group. He just didn't have enough people in the Fire Cloud Group. He temporarily collected miscellaneous goods and made some small money. Usually, he was silent and would not be conspicuous anywhere. He was relatively diligent and was willing to do the dirty and tiring work! After this task was over, he and Fire Cloud Group parted.
Li Ya naturally wouldn't take a lowly servant to heart. She still had a lot of things to do!
Su Junbao walked far away and wanted to turn to a cliff. But when he got there, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.
Somehow, there was a big pit on the flat ground. There was an oval egg at the bottom of the pit. It was about the height of an adult and stood there alone.
Last night, Su Junbao had been here. He didn't remember that there was such a big pit and a giant egg. It seemed that it fell from the sky and made a deep pit on the ground! The strange thing was that no one could detect it last night. Was the wind and rain really too loud?
For a moment, Su Junbao couldn't figure it out.
"What exactly is this?"
After looking at it for a while, Su Junbao finally couldn't help but feel curious. He touched it and wanted to see what it was. Suddenly, he shook his hand and quickly withdrew it. A drop of blood still dripped on the stone egg.
The stone egg was a standard oval shape, but its surface was not smooth. There were many sharp edges and thorns on it. Su Junbao's hand was cut.
As Su Junbao's blood dripped onto the stone egg, there was a cracking sound. It came from the stone egg that had just stopped moving. At the same time, there were cracks on the surface of the stone egg, as if something was about to break out of the shell.
"It's about to split open!"
Su Junbao didn't know what was going on, so he quickly stepped back.
Then, with a loud bang, the stone egg was completely broken into countless pieces. Standing in the same place, Su Junbao opened his mouth wide in an instant. He saw a chubby little girl sitting in the middle of the eggshell. She was only two or three years old. She had a pair of big eyes, a chubby little face, and a red pocket. She looked very cute.
A little girl jumped out of the stone!
It was beyond Su Junbao's knowledge, but it did happen in front of him. He couldn't believe it!
The little girl came out of the egg and sat there in a daze, looking a little confused. It seemed that she had not adapted to the surrounding environment.
After a while, she saw Su Mo, who was standing there in a daze. She stared at him and then looked at him. Suddenly, she giggled, got up from the ground, opened her arms, took two short legs, and clumsily walked over. She hugged Su Junbao's legs, looked up and didn't know what to say.
The little girl's action really startled Su Junbao. However, seeing that she looked cute and had no malice, he gradually relaxed and looked at her carefully.
The nose was the nose, and the eyes were the eyes. She was no different from a normal child. She was chubby and very cute. If there was no difference, it was Su Junbao who felt that her strength was amazing. Once he hugged his legs, the strength would be stronger than that of an adult.
How could a two or three-year-old child have such great strength?
"What's your name? Where did you come from?"
Su Junbao asked tentatively. He was not sure if she could understand human language!
Sure enough, the little girl stared blankly. She couldn't understand anything, let alone answer.
"Psst!"
She stretched out a hand and touched her little belly. She looked up and saw the look in his eyes. Su Junbao understood.
That was the signal of the child's hunger. It turned out that the little guy, who had just jumped out of the stone, was hungry as soon as he came out!
Suddenly, a little guy with a strange origin jumped out, which made Su Junbao a little overwhelmed. A living person was seen by him, so he couldn't leave him alone, could he?
There was no one for hundreds of miles here. If a little girl who couldn't walk steadily was left here, she would starve to death sooner or later or be taken away by wild beasts!
"Let's bring him back first!"
Thinking of this, Su Junbao bent down and picked her up. She was fat and not very heavy, but she must be a human being!
The little fellow seemed to have a natural sense of intimacy with Su Junbao, and she hugged him happily with her chubby little arms!
When Su Junbao came back with the little fellow from the back of the cliff, the others in the team had already woken up. Some were sitting lazily, some were drinking hot wine, and some were eating breakfast!
There were 30 to 40 people in their group, and they were on their way to Qinghe County of the Fenglan Kingdom. There were expected to be five or six days to go!
Among them, 12 of them were mercenaries of the Fire Cloud Group, and the rest were his fellows. Now, it was easy to tell who was sitting on both sides.
The mercenaries sat on their own, and the employer sat on his own.
When everyone saw Su Junbao carrying a little girl back, they were all very surprised!
When the little guy saw that there were so many people, he was very afraid of life. He buried his little face in Su Junbao's shoulders and refused to raise his head. His hands were tightly clasped!
"Where did you get it?" Li Ya asked!
"I picked it up nearby!"
Su Junbao answered. He didn't mention anything about the stone egg because it was too bizarre. It wasn't a rare thing to find a little girl along the way!
The land here was barren and the living environment was harsh. There were always some children who could not be raised abandoned on the side of the road. Life and death were decided by fate. It was not strange that they were used to it!
"I picked her up as soon as I saw her! Commander, can you take her with you?" He looked at Li Ya and asked.
"No way!"
Hearing this, before Li Ya could speak, someone in the team objected. A fat middle-aged man stood up. His name was Lu Jinhai, and he was responsible for the commercial transportation this time.
"Leader Li, with all due respect, it's a long journey. I'm afraid it's not convenient for us to bring a little girl along!" Lu Jinhai said with a look of displeasure on his face.
"Why is it inconvenient?"
Su Junbao, who rarely spoke, frowned and asked, "She's just a child. We can't leave her here alone, can we? Then she'll definitely die. I'll take care of her. When we get there..."
"It's just because she's a child that it's inconvenient!"
Lu Jinhai interrupted him rudely. A waiter dared to refute him. "I'm paying you to protect me from transporting goods. I'm not here to take care of you when you're free!"
"That's right. It's the most troublesome thing for a child to eat and drink. If he gets sick again, won't it delay his trip? Can you afford it?" His fellows echoed.
"You are too young. I advise you to put them back where you picked them up from. You have to get used to being a mercenary. How many people don't die in the world? There are beggars and homeless people who can't eat well and wait for death everywhere on the road. If you want them all like you, our mercenary group doesn't have to do anything!" Someone in the mercenary group said.
"Do you mean that if you meet him alone, you won't leave him alone?" Su Junbao asked.
"There are too many things in this world that can't be managed. Why bother? We are mercenaries, not good people. You have just entered this business, and there are still many things that you don't understand!" The man shrugged his shoulders indifferently.
Hearing the crowd's objections, Su Junbao frowned more and more. He only held the little guy in his arms and did not speak.
"It's done!"
Seeing more and more voices of opposition and Su Junbao's rare refusal to give in, Li Ya, as the commander, finally said, "It's just a child. It's not a big deal. Boss Lu, what do you think? Take it as a kind gesture!"
She turned around and smiled sweetly at Lu Jinhai!
"Haha! That's easy to say. Since Commander Li has spoken, it will be easy. But when we arrive in the city, Commander Li, don't refuse to have a meal with me!"
In the face of Li Mai, Lu Jinhai's attitude changed a lot, and his face was full of smiles. His bean-sized eyes stared at the perfect curve of the other side, revealing a hot light, as if he were going to swallow the person in front of him alive!
This was an unusually tall and healthy woman. Her impressive body was tightly wrapped in a set of martial artist leather armor. She looked about 23 or 24 years old. Her face with a little freckles had an unspeakable wildness and beauty, but it was full of vicissitudes and maturity that did not match her age. She looked a little tired.
"That's easy to say!"
Li Ya also laughed, and her smile was very stiff. Fire Cloud Group was just a small mercenary group. Lu Jinhai was lucky enough to get such a big deal. Most of the reason was that he came for her.
Li Ya had been working in this field all year round, so how could she not understand the other party's little thoughts? It was just that business was hard to do, and sometimes she could only pretend to be humble.
"Well, don't waste any more time. Let's go after dinner!" She turned to Su Junbao and said. Looking at the little guy in his arms, she sighed. She didn't know which family he was from. It was not easy for him to live.
"Thank you!" Su Junbao didn't say a word. He just nodded and thanked him.
"Boy, don't worry about this kind of thing in the future. There are bandit gangs everywhere on the road. You can't afford to delay the trip! If you really come to the bandit gang, you and I will lose our lives!" It was the deputy commander He Si, a short man in his thirties, standing with Li Ya, who was 1.8 meters tall. He was shorter, but when he glanced at her from the corner of his eyes, he couldn't hide the blazing light in his eyes.
As soon as He Si finished his words, his expression gradually froze on his face!
Many people on the ground who were still eating stood up one after another, because they all heard the sound of hooves stepping on the ground in the wind, mixed with all kinds of strange roars.