It turns out there was such a thing.
Feng Yueya thought that among the missing people, there surely were some who couldn't resist flying up into the sky, and that's why they vanished.
"We have to make it through in two days? That's asking too much of us. If we were full of energy, we might have been able to make it.
But right now, we haven't had any food or water for three days. We simply don't have the strength to cross the desert in two days," someone protested.
Others echoed the sentiment.
Feng Yueya also felt this was a form of disguised torture.
Two hundred forty li, that's one hundred and twenty kilometers, you'd have to walk sixty kilometers in a day.
Under normal circumstances, maybe everyone could manage it with some effort.
But how could they have the strength to finish it now, especially since this is a desert, where you move even slower.
Assistant General Guo smiled faintly and continued to speak:
