"That's good, that's good. The west is suffering from a severe drought. It's not as peaceful as you think. It's better to prepare more things than not." Cheng Hezhou nodded and added.
"Yes, I know. I'm planning to go buy some dried meat," Fang Yuan said after thinking for a moment.
To avoid standing out too much, she really needed to bring something back openly, lest these people think she was trying to freeload.
"Do you have enough arrows? How about I give you some?" Cheng Hezhou asked.
He had seen her quiver of arrows earlier, which contained only about ten arrows, and he was worried that she wouldn't have enough arrows if she needed to take action.
That's why he asked Fang Yuan to buy things.
"Oh, this? I was just about to go buy it!"
Fang Yuan then realized that he seemed to be short of arrows.
In her previous life, during the years of natural disasters when she had nothing to do, she also practiced archery, and her archery skills were passable.
The original form could even fire three arrows simultaneously, so it's essential to have plenty of arrows on hand.
“Alright, it’s better to prepare more than necessary.” Cheng Hezhou nodded.
He's given all the necessary warnings, but he has no idea what he'll encounter next.
Fang Yuan turned around and went out, first finding a blacksmith shop and buying two hundred arrows.
These arrows were really expensive; two hundred of them cost her fifteen taels of silver, averaging more than seventy coins per arrow.
After thinking for a moment, she picked out a three-stone bow made of good material as a backup.
Turning her head, she saw a large cleaver with a long handle. She had collected this kind of cleaver before, called a "Mo Dao".
The handle is over a meter long, the blade is nearly a meter long, and it weighs about 20 to 30 kilograms.
This is a horse-slaying sword from the Tang Dynasty, which was once very popular during that period.
Fang Yuan weighed the knife in her hand. She could easily wield it, and the blade and handle were long enough to make her feel safe, so she bought it.
After purchasing the weapons, she spent fifty taels of silver. These weapons were too expensive; ordinary people like her couldn't afford them.
She put the knife, the new bow, and the arrows into her spatial storage before going to buy dried meat.
But when they asked the price, it was outrageously expensive; a pound of pork jerky cost fifty coins.
The food was only twenty coins a pound, and it was the kind that was already prepared and ready to eat.
She went straight to a place, bought some pre-prepared dried meat and a small bag of flour from her spatial storage, and then leisurely returned to the inn.
When they left the next day, the caravan seemed to have grown considerably larger.
The caravan, which originally consisted of more than forty people, was augmented with about twenty guards.
It seems this caravan has been recruiting people along the way.
In this way, she felt like she had lost out, since she hadn't received a single penny.
But then I realized I'd taken the initiative to get involved with them, so I had nothing to say.
Fang Yuan remained at the very back of the group.
The adult and two children in the car were very well-behaved, thanks to her occasional feeding.
The roadside we passed by was mostly bare, perhaps due to the drought.
Fortunately, the grass along the road gradually increased as we went south, and we could see sparse trees in the distance.
The journey went smoothly for seven or eight days in a row, and Fang Yuan began to relax, feeling that he had finally chosen the right team.
But when they reached a canyon, they were proven wrong.
The canyon is flanked by cliffs with strangely shaped rocks, and the lower part of the cliffs is covered with trees and vines.
The bottom section is the passage they need to pass through, just wide enough for one carriage to pass through.
Just then, a carriage sped towards their caravan on the road ahead.
A dozen or so masked men with knives were chasing after them, just over ten meters away.
Arrows continued to shoot at them from the cliffs on both sides.
As the caravan drew near, the arrow shot directly at it.
This indiscriminate attack was clearly an attempt to silence witnesses.
The two guards leading the way were killed by a hail of arrows.
Ah~
"There are bandits..."
"We are a merchant caravan from the Marquis of Dingyuan's residence. Are there any room for negotiation, esteemed heroes? The caravan is willing to offer five hundred taels of silver as a token of our gratitude!"
Cheng Hezhou immediately opened the carriage curtain and shouted loudly outside.
If they were truly bandits, the title "Marquis of Dingyuan" would still be quite effective.
But it's clear that these weren't real bandits.
"Hmph! Enough with the nonsense, now that you're here, you're leaving your lives behind!"
With a shout from afar, an even denser barrage of arrows rained down on the caravan.
"Ah!" Cheng Hezhou was hit directly in the arm by an arrow.
He quickly got off the carriage and hid behind it, shouting:
"Everyone, find something to cover yourselves!"
Fang Yuan was at the very back, but the caravan was only a few dozen meters long, so he was also caught in the rain of arrows.
Seeing the arrows flying towards him, Fang Yuan's heart tightened. He quickly bought two wooden door panels from his spatial storage to block the front door and roof of the donkey cart.
After instructing his mother and the other two not to get out of the car, he held up a door panel to block the view.
Then I frantically shouted in my mind:
"System, someone's about to die! Do you have any life-saving tricks?"
[The host can manipulate these unclaimed items within the range of their mental energy projection and access them through the exchange space.]
"How am I supposed to collect all these arrows, so many and so fast?"
Fang Yuan hid behind the door, listening to the jingling sounds, feeling utterly devastated.
One or two arrows would be fine, but so many arrows are flying towards her?
She hasn't specifically practiced this move, so how can she stop it?
These bastard robbers don't play by the rules; they don't even give people a chance to negotiate, they just want to kill them.
[If the host permits, the system can collect the data on their behalf.]
"Hurry up and collect it, collect it right now! Don't ask me about these good things in the future, just collect them! If I die, no one will help you complete the mission."
Feeling the arrow strike the door with force, Fang Yuan didn't hesitate for a second.
【receive】
As the system responded, the arrows flying towards Fang Yuan disappeared instantly after approaching within twenty meters, reappearing in a corner of her exchange space.
Fang Yuan waited behind the door for a while and realized that there was indeed a vacuum around him, so he breathed a sigh of relief and put the door down.
"From now on, whenever I encounter any attacks like this, no matter what they are, I will take them all."
She looked at the increasing number of arrows in the space, and it seemed that this way she wouldn't have to spend money to buy arrows anymore.
[System understands. Also, a reminder to the host: there are still people lying in ambush in the dense forest on both sides.]
The system's scanning range has been expanding, but it can only scan so far.
Its actual controllable range is limited to the area where Fang Yuan can project his spiritual energy, and even then, it requires Fang Yuan's permission.
Therefore, it could only offer advice to Fang Yuan; there was nothing else it could do to help.
Why didn't you say so sooner?
Fang Yuan quickly looked towards the dense forests on the left and right sides of the mountain wall.
Her eyes, which had been restored to a level far beyond that of ordinary people by the Rejuvenation Pill, immediately spotted the figure disguised as someone lying in the grass in the distance.
These idiots don't seem to intend to leave them alive. In that case, they'll have to experience what I'm capable of.
She picked up her bow, slung her quiver over her shoulder, looked around, and finally climbed onto the top of the donkey cart.
He lay prone on the roof of the carport, raised his bow and arrow, and fired an arrow at the figure he had just seen.
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