Muhadi looked at the excited girl seriously, as if she had never found such a side in her.
The girl continued to question excitedly, "Tell me, what do you think of the elves?"
"Elves? Are they..." Muhadi thought of the outspoken Fahd, the cautious Hassan, and the unpredictable Fatuma, "...there are good and bad, we can't generalize..."
As he spoke, he recalled the pursuit of the caravan when he was first discovered. Those caravan guards who were all killed in battle, women who were killed after being mounted, and corpses whose stomachs were dismembered...
At that time, I found a thin human girl hiding in a van. I blocked her short arrow, Fatuma let me ride her, and I didn't accept...
...that girl! Muhadi took a closer look at the girl in front of him. Between his eyes, he clearly resembled the girl who was killed by Fatuma. It's no wonder that when I first saw her in the Hall of Dust, I felt that she was very familiar.
"You, shouldn't you have any sisters, who happened to be killed by the elves." Muhadi asked tentatively.
"Sisters?" Aisha repeated the word bitterly, "I don't have any sisters."
"It's like I don't have parents."
Aisha continued, "I don't know where you came from and how you got into the elf tribe in the first place, but it seems that you don't know much about the desert."
"Water, pastures, wealth, slaves, tribes in the desert fight for these every day, especially between different races. Elves, humans kill each other every day, perpetuating the ancient hatred since the battle of purification."
"Don't you know?! They eat human flesh!" Aisha complained.
Muhadi knew, but as a traveler, he always felt that he didn't really belong to Atas. So I don't feel much sympathy for the elves in this world that can eat human flesh.
"You can't really imagine the cruelty of the desert." Facing this sentence, Muhadi was speechless. "And the things I despise the most in the desert are the humans who serve the elves."
"Why?" Muhadi asked, feeling despised.
"I talked to you, I decided to go to the Dust Hall to learn psionics."
"Yes, as you mentioned, it wasn't your parents or your chief who sent you to learn psionics."
Aisha nodded, "This is my own decision, but the chief paid for the tuition because I am his daughter."
"Didn't you say you don't have parents?"
"Yes, he sees me as a daughter because he is my mother's husband, but he is not my father. And my mother died when I was a child."
"My father, named Jared, is said to have been a citizen of the city-state of Nibenai. He was a loner who was exiled to the Western Desert by the Witch King because he stood up for the exploited and weak. It was very frustrating, but quickly adjusted his mentality, joined a small tribe, and continued to live as a tribesman."
"My mother, Haidia, is gifted with psionics, so she worked as a chant in a small tribe in the western desert. In the desert, psionic people can find water, rescue the wounded, and participate in battles, so their status is Very high, many can become chants and participate in the discussion of tribal affairs."
"In private, my mother was a very idealistic and compassionate person. She had been a slave trying to figure out how to make Arthas green again and the sky blue again."
"At that time, there were still many small tribes in the Western Desert, but they were all weak and seldom communicated. But the elves in the Western Desert were very powerful. There was a powerful tribe of elves called 'Sand Snake', which was in that area. the overlord."
"The human tribes are many but weak, and the elf tribes are few but strong. So the Western Desert originally maintained a fragile balance until that person appeared."
"That man's name is Dingo Ben Vargas, and people say he was born of a poisoned snake, evil, selfish, violent, capable as a sand wolf, strong as an old rope, cunning like a fox ." When the girl said the word **, she was a little shy, but she couldn't hide the anger and hatred in her tone.
"It is said that Ding Gou was originally a city-state man. Because he committed too many unspeakable crimes, he took refuge in the Western Desert. The scouts of the Elf tribe found him. They originally wanted to kill him, but he finally asked for his life. "Speaking of this, Aisha stared at Muhadi with those beautiful eyes.
"He was patient, he was servile, he did everything, and finally he won a certain position in the Sand Snake tribe. They made him a warrior so that he could better serve the Elf tribe." Muhadi was uncomfortable, this Ding Gou Ben Vargas sounds too much like himself.
"Ding Gou killed seventy-seven humans in order to become an elf warrior, including his own brothers and clansmen. When he became a warrior, he was determined to conquer all other human tribes, work for his master, and let Shut up those elves who still doubt his loyalty."
"With fear, awe, or sheer anger, the elves began to follow him. And he tortured them, reprimanded them, beat them, tempered them, and made them an angry army. He told his own people that the desert was a cruel My mother, if you want to survive, you must fight the cruelty of life with your own cruelty. They fought east and west and wiped out many tribes." Leading the army as an alien, Muhadi found that this man named Ding Gou was very strong.
"My mother's tribe was also targeted by Ding Gou, and when Ding Gou's army arrived, people were almost unable to resist. Their meager possessions were plundered and their children were slaughtered. The men were stripped and thrown away by Ding Gou's men. Going to the desert to die, the women are ridden unconscious, and then the thugs give them a chance to beg for mercy."
"My mother had just met my father Jared at the time, which was rare because human tribes don't usually communicate very much, but my father was a loner, so he met her."
"They fell in love and crossed each other. They were about to get married in a few days, but Ding Gou and the elf army he led ruined everything." Aisha's tone was a little choked, but she was a strong girl and concealed the past very well.
"All the surviving human tribes realized that they had to unite to defeat Ding Gou's army. Most of the time they were strangers and did not see each other. Some were survivors from several tribes that were destroyed by Ding Gou and had nothing. , only hatred. But now they stand together and fight Ding Gou's elven army."
"On that day, blood was sprinkled into the sand, and none of the elves of the Sand Snake tribe survived, and the coalition troops suffered heavy casualties, not one out of ten. Ding Gou fled into the desert alone. It was my father, Jared, who saw it. He, caught up with him, and killed him."
"Then the coalition rushed into the camp that had been looted by the elves to see if there was anything of value left. There, Jared found her and tore the veil over her eyes. She looked at him, her Her eyes couldn't adjust to the sudden light for a while. So she thought he was with the elves who had raped her and plundered her tribe. Of course she didn't know that Jared and the others were out looking for survivors."
"She looked up at him, she blinked, her nose and eyes were bleeding. She said: 'Before I die, you must know that I hid the map of the tribe in ... there, with the map, you You can find a source of water and go on living'"
"'What?' Jared said. He didn't expect that a woman who was naked and bleeding from anemia, who was about to faint from anemia, would say such a thing."
"'Map!' she panted hard. 'You can't find water without a map, and you can't live without water.'"
"Then she passed out, and Jared dragged her to a shady spot and shouted: 'I found one. Still alive! I found one alive!'"
"In the months that followed, Jared held her as she cried and cursed, nursed her until she recovered, and stayed with her while she was pregnant. Their wedding was blessed by many."
"The human tribes in the Western Desert realized the need for unity, and it was Jared who led the rest to form a new and powerful tribe, who united the once strangers through fighting, intimidation and conspiracy. ."
"This sounds romantic," Muhadi commented. "Ding Gou died, Jared survived. I kind of understand why you hate humans who help elves, but why do you say you don't have a father?"
"So you don't know anything, Muhadi," Aisha continued. "There are no romantic love stories in the desert, only fiery reality. Jared was indeed my father, that's true, but Jared died long ago in desert."
"When Dingo's elf army was wiped out, Jared heroically tracked Dingo into the desert alone, the last mistake of his life. Only one of them came back from the desert, dressed in Jared's clothes and wearing Jared's hood, and calls himself Jared."
"No one recognized him because the army of the Sand Snake tribe was completely wiped out, the entire tribe was razed, and the surviving elves fled the northern desert."
"The small tribe Jared belonged to was also razed, as were many other human tribes, and the survivors were not familiar with each other. And Jared's original friends died either in Ding Gou's conquest or in the final battle. Also, as I said, my father, Jared, is from a city state, he is not very used to the sandstorm in the desert, and always wears a face towel, so not many people have seen his face."
Muhadi imagined the image of Arabs wearing face scarves on Earth, and found it really difficult to identify.
"He came back from the desert, saved my mother, and the remnants of the coalition accepted him."
"I have a question," Mohadi said. "Your mother knows your father. Ding Gou's disguise is unlikely to succeed."
"Yes, my mother was clearly not fooled. She was a wise man - arguably outstanding in her own field. She recognized the man who married her and the one who led the army of angry elf thugs It was the same person who rode her, destroyed her tribe, and laughed while watching her friend die in the desert."
"But what's the point? There's no love story in the desert, only grim survival. And the new Jared is a strong man and the only possible leader. Only together can the rest survive."
"My mother died of illness later. The injuries in her early years were too severe. Ding Gou is her nominal husband and my nominal father, but he is by no means my father, absolutely!" The girl said viciously.
"That's why I have to learn psionics, strengthen myself, and avenge my mother."
Muhadi's joy of becoming a warrior was gone at this time, and the girl's life experience deeply shocked him. After a while, he said, "Is this the desert?"
"Our hometown."
she answered.