Sheikh Tian certainly understood that, swallowed saliva, moved his mouth, but did not dare to say the words out.
She ignored him and asked straight away, "How many soldiers do they gather?"
"Thirty thousand!"
Three sniff sounded at once, apparently they were so shocked by this that they couldn't even say anything.
Thirty thousand! She furrowed her delicate eyebrows, gauging the gap between the enemy and them, and could imagine that this would be the most difficult battle she had fought since becoming Queen of Mandorla.
"Al, what to do!?" All three looked to her.
"Order that no one be allowed to leave the Gerry Mountains, not one step."
"Yes!" Ross took the order. Then he seemed to remember something else and asked, "Queen, is this the reason you want to take us away?"
She smiled, "Yes, that's why."
Seeing her answer as a matter of course, the sheikh Tian could not help asking, "Why would you know."
She sighed and said, "We escaped into the Gerry Mountains, and the fact that the Hittite army suddenly didn't take action and didn't check the situation on the border, and acted as if they weren't worried about us running out means that there must be a conspiracy, and that they weren't prepared to leave us to fend for ourselves, but were prepared to drive us to extinction."
The three heard her out before they realized what they had overlooked.
Feeling ashamed, Ross then asked, "So lately you've been cutting down a lot of trees, as well as making us pick up piles of boulders, and having Opal pick up medicine, all because ..."
She smiled appreciatively and said, "That's right, and it's because of Hittite's arrogance that it helped us win this little bit of time, so naturally we have to make good use of it."
"Yes!" Ross nodded respectfully, with this word from her, he was relieved and secretly sighed, how honored he was to follow her, that decision in his heart became even more firm.
There was admiration and fascination in his eyes.
Sheikh Tian asked, "What if we don't leave here, and the Hittite army comes in?"
Artemis looked deeper into the mountain range, Hittite army were still just wandering around the periphery of the mountain range, the depths of Gerry mountains was the real dangerous place. Once inside, they will be lost.
"Let's discuss an escape route."
Yes, when the gap between the enemy and them was too large, it was the most rational way to escape first.
They discussed until midnight. She didn't let them go back until it was completely dark and there was no light.
After everyone had rested, a black shadow came out quietly and came to the forest. A black eagle rushed down. The black shadow hid in the night. He took out a sheepskin from his body and hesitated inexplicably. After a long hesitation, he stuffed the sheepskin into the bamboo tube at the foot of the black eagle.
The shadow didn't leave here until the Black Hawk disappeared into the night.
*
Ten days later -
Located at the junction of the desert and the high mountains, the temperature in the Gerry Mountains began to plummet, so that Artemis that has always been healthy caught cold unexpectedly.
In the tent, because of the high fever, her drunken red face was alarmingly hot, her body temperature gradually rose to a worrying level, and she could only lie in bed all day, unable to do anything, thus her lavender eyes were much dimmer.
Lars frowned and blamed himself for his negligence. Opal kept using cold towels to apply warm compress, but it didn't help much.
Once out of the tent, Opal's collar was grabbed by Sheikh Tian, who asked nervously, "How is it? Is she all right? Did she drink the medicine?" He asked all the questions in one breath, and his huge palm was gripped tighter and tighter.
Opal pushed away his hand, straightened his clothes, and then spoke, "Not very well, the medicine she drank in is vomiting out, and she muttered nonsense constantly."