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"Th-that fast?!"
Wu Tan had not expected the Evil Coffin's movement speed to be so incredible. He had thought it was only slightly faster than his carpet.
After all, along the way, Gu Xi had always moved just a little ahead of him.
He had never expected the Evil Coffin to be able to instantly travel such a long distance.
So what had it been doing before, moving in front of the carpet? Waiting to escort them?
Gu Xi paid no attention to that. As he looked at the situation below, a trace of confusion flashed through his mind.
What was going on here?
Hadn't they said it was an army?
Could this even be called an army?
Looking at how scattered they were, even a militia would be stronger than them.
There were more than thirty cowboys below, riding horses and carrying long rifles.
They were escorting ten strange ox carts in their midst.
These ox carts looked like the sort of Covered Wagons used when an entire family was moving house, but the tracks left on the road made it clear that the weight of what they carried was wrong.
From the movement speed of the oxen pulling them and the marks left by the wheels, it was obvious that the carts were loaded with a great deal of heavy cargo.
It seemed this was not an army at all, but a transport team escorting something like gold.
There were no trains here yet, so long-distance transport could only rely on these ox carts.
If the goods were more valuable, they had to be disguised as a migration in order to reduce the chance of attracting attention.
Seeing the state of this so-called army, Gu