What made you have the illusion that I am the protagonist! ?

Except for Grove, most of the caravans are above 30 years old. They are both young people. Dongmi and Diarmuid were naturally arranged to share a tent with Brother Heipi.

"Huh—~" Dongmi stretched her waist, although she slept for nearly five hours, she still looked sleepy.

As soon as Fuyuya woke up, Diarmuid, who was sitting and resting with his eyes closed, immediately opened his eyes.

To prepare for the night before, Toumiya didn’t go to sleep, but he has a big heart, eat when he needs to eat, and sleep when he needs to sleep. He is quite used to it. When he wakes up at noon, it is three o’clock in the afternoon, when the sun is at its strongest It has passed.

"Why, are you tired on the first day? Then your next journey will be even more difficult." Grove has already got up and started to pack his bags.

In fact, he himself didn't sleep well. After all, outside the desert, they usually follow the normal schedule. Although he traveled to the desert many times with the caravan, he already knew that he slept irregularly in the desert. People are always snoozing and have not been able to enter the state so quickly.

What's more, he thought about a lot of things before falling asleep, thanks to this bastard!

Inexplicably stared at again, Tomi scratched his cheek. He had gradually gotten used to Grove's thorny tone, as long as he peeled off the surface unfriendliness, the inside was a sincere reminder.

"Hey, Grove, do you mean we're going to sleep at this time every day from now on?"

"It's a little worse than this. After that, we mainly rest in the oasis, and the distance between each oasis is different. We may not be able to find each oasis accurately, and even if we arrive at the reserved oasis, there will be a lot of trouble." Maybe it was destroyed in the desert storm, so we couldn't rest regularly like this after that." Speaking of the harshness of the desert, Grove's voice was also a little heavy.

Why do caravans need the position of "leader"?In fact, it was because Abel recorded the locations and travel routes of many desert oases in his mind.

It can be said that in addition to experience, the position of team leader also requires a good memory, a sense of direction and a sense of space and position. The former can be cultivated, while the latter three are basically innate.

The reason why Abel wants Grove to succeed him is not only a little selfishness of his own nephew, but also the reason why Grove has such a talent.

After all, there is no GPS positioning in this world. They are in the desert, and the team leader can only use the direction, their own travel speed and the location of the previous oasis to estimate the position and find the approximate position. The rest is to rely on tracking animals. Footprints and other means to find a specific oasis.

What's more, even if there is GPS positioning, it may not be useful-a sandstorm may flood an oasis at any time. If you are unlucky, even if you go to the right place, you will not be able to find the original oasis.

"If you don't want to be buried deep in the sand dunes in your sleep, it's best not to camp casually in the desert. The time to sleep is enough for the wind to blow the sand around and bury the entire camp."

"Hey, isn't it bad for us to camp like this?" Toyomi asked suspiciously.

"Are you an idiot!? Didn't you see such a large Achnatherum splendens bush? Such a large Achnatherum splendens bush means that there must be groundwater a few meters below the grass. blowing, and the tall grass will keep us out of a lot of wind and sand."

"That's right, Grove, you know a lot."

For Toya, who is always curious about everything, it is perfectly normal to ask questions, but the black-skinned brother obviously enjoys such eyes and compliments, so he can't help but say a few more words.

"It's nothing, everyone knows it. We have just entered the desert not long ago, and the supplies are sufficient. There is no need to dig the groundwater here, but after we go deep into the desert, if the water is not enough and we don't reach the next oasis, we may Be careful to collect the water well."

"Hmm!" Fuyumi's eyes sparkled.

In fact, it was quite right for Abel to entrust the two of them to Grove's care.

He came to the caravan when he was a teenager, but the caravan was full of stable "adults" except him. In order not to hold back everyone, Grove kept holding his breath because he didn't want people to underestimate him. Therefore, in the eyes of Abel and others, Grove has always been a good and sensible boy.

Before that, even if he occasionally had the opportunity to socialize with his peers, first of all, Grove had a strong personality from childhood, which made it difficult for Grove to communicate with others; secondly, even if he did communicate, he could only talk about desert-related topics, and He didn't understand the topics that other people talked about, and he couldn't talk about it at all.

But young people are young after all, and the exchanges between peers cannot be exchanged with the care and love of elders.

Diarmuid watched the exchange between the two, and he was never worried about his master's full taming skills.His feeling was not wrong. It should be said that Grove also wanted to make friends with Tomiya. kind of complementarity.

Therefore, in the eyes of all adults, Grove, a good and sensible boy, becomes so awkward in front of Toyomi, even a little childish with anger.

It's just that Fuyuya is obviously well versed in the way of smoothing hair.

He didn't simply echo Grove's words. Tomi, who has profound experience in solo travel, can really understand the desert knowledge lectures given by Brother Heipi by analogy, and he also knows that these seemingly casual experiences The talk is valuable, and even ordinary words of echo sound extraordinarily sincere.

However, the end of this pleasant exchange was not so harmonious.

"Huh?" Fuyuya, who was looking "You are so amazing", suddenly approached Grove as if he had discovered something, "Your eyes...are red?"

The little brother Heipi immediately lowered his face.

"That's right, I'm from Ishwar, what's the matter!?" Grove, who just stabbed him verbally even when he didn't like Dongya the most, this time he directly grabbed Dongya's body The placket, but his height is still a little short, and he failed to lift him up.

Brown skin and red eyes are the characteristics of the Ishwar people. Yes, this caravan, including the leader Abel, is all Ishwar people.

They didn't deliberately cover up this, but before, because the desert was windy and sandy, and the glare of the sun reflected on the desert, if they looked at the desert for a long time without shelter, they would suffer from eye diseases like snow blindness, so they all wore full The cover-type windshield still has the function of sunglasses, so Fuyuya can't see the color of their eyes naturally.

After the Ishwar annihilation battle a few years ago, although the military did not order the massacre of the remaining Ishwar people, they still survived.

After such a massacre of war, no one would believe that the Ishvars and the Armistorians could live in peace.

Even people who didn't discriminate against the Ishwar people have pimples in their hearts-it's like you killed your neighbor's son, obviously you did something wrong, but when the neighbor who lost his son came to chat with you, you I always think: Did he come to seek revenge on me?Same.

This has led to the fact that the Ishwar people can hardly get any formal jobs in the towns of Amistoris. They either live in slums, or, like Abel and others, find another way to make a living.

Anyway, we will spend so many days together in the caravan together, and the characteristics of the Ishwar people are obvious, and Abel never thought of hiding it.

It's just that even Abel didn't expect that there would be Toya, who would treat his brown skin as if he was sunburned, and would not be able to recognize the existence of the strangeness of the Ishwar people.

In fact, Fuyuya also knew about the Ishwar annihilation battle and the characteristics of the Ishwar people from the history books he had read before, but he had never actually encountered them, so he didn't have that kind of concept.

After all, for him, whether it is the vast majority of Amistorians like the western whites, or the half-breed who seems to have oriental ancestry like Lieutenant Mustang, or the brown-skinned and red-eyed Ishwar like Grove, all They're all - [people from another world].

At this moment, Toya, who remembered this race only after hearing the other party's words, swallowed the compliments like "so beautiful" under Grove's ugly face, but suddenly raised his voice, "Diarmuid! "

It was only then that Grove saw the handsome guard who didn't pay much attention to him before, pointing a yellow short gun at his neck with a cold face. He had no doubt that if Tomi hadn't spoken just now, he would Maybe he was stabbed right through.

Although he has experienced life and death many times, this is the first time he faced the killing intent from his own kind like this. Grove unconsciously let go of his hand. , snorted and walked out of the tent.

"Sorry, Toya-sama, it's my fault." After calming down, Diarmuid bowed his head apologetically, obviously he also knew that his reaction was too big.

Fuyumi sighed, "No, it's really my fault this time, oh, oh, it's really nerve-wracking..."