Chapter 2 Stripping and needles
The desert, with its loneliness and vastness, has always become a peerless and independent existence.
At this time, Xu Hao was not in the mood to appreciate the loneliness and magnificence of "the desert is lonely and the sun sets over the long river".
He and Xiao Yu had already penetrated deep into the belly of the desert, which looked vast, magnificent, mysterious and charming, and at this time, in Xu Hao's mind, it was like an endless hell.
What kind of feelings did those tourists have to conquer the desert? Xu Hao seriously doubted.
As far as the eye can see, there are endless quicksand hills, not even a footprint, deserted!
"Hey, where are you taking me, where are you going?" Xu Hao shouted to the back of the person who walked to the front, his voice was hoarse, and he was already so thirsty that his throat hurt.
Xiao Yu walked forward without saying a word, her heavy body was a little tired, but she didn't stop, just kept walking forward.
Xu Hao looked at it, the vast quicksand was like a boundless sky, and the sun was about to set.
He took a deep breath and puffed up his strength to catch up with Xiao Yu.
Pulling her, panting breathlessly, he said, "Don't go, I'm dying of thirst, we must find the water source first!"
Xiao Yu looked back at his chapped lips and frowned. "Well, it's a desert, there's no water. ”
Xu Hao was angry, "Since you know this place, can you take me to a place with a water source first, I'm dying of thirst." ”
"Don't you see that this place is all an endless desert?" Xiao Yu said expressionlessly.
“...... I know," Xu Hao said, "so I'm going to see if there's a lake or something...... I don't have any experience in surviving in the wild, you are a fairy anyway, this should be a very simple thing for you. ”
"That's right, but it's a desert, there's no lake. Xiao Yu said he was helpless.
"Could it be that I am going to die at a young age in this unknown vast desert?" Xu Hao looked desperate. "I haven't asked Uncle Cai to buy me accident insurance yet......"
"Don't worry, you can't die, if you find the entrance to the ancient city, there will be a water source. Xiao Yu couldn't help but smile.
"Then let's go find it...... What are you waiting for......"
"I've been looking for it, it's you who want to die or call me alive"
"......" knew that there was still a glimmer of hope, Xu Hao was in a rare mood to tease, "It seems that you are very familiar with this place, don't you know the entrance to the ancient city?"
"Uh...... It is...... It's a little different here......" Xiao Yu didn't want to continue the awkward chat, and continued to walk forward.
"I said, can you use the immortal method to change some water out......" Xu Hao thought that the immortals should have great powers.
"I find that you live in a society that is already very developed. Xiao Yu turned around and said seriously, "I don't know why I still have an IQ like you......"
Xu Hao's face was blinded, "Why are you making a personal attack?"
"The Law of Conservation of Energy," Xiao Yu smiled brightly. "Got it? Everything that comes out of thin air is fake, it's just a trick. The law of conservation of energy means that you can't create something out of nothing. Your book is read in vain."
"......" Xu Hao was not superstitious in the first place, but the immortals had encountered it, and there was something he didn't dare to imagine, this immortal in turn told him to believe in science!
There was silence for a while, and the sun in the distance was only the size of a crescent moon, and it was completely dark as soon as the sun went down, which was beyond doubt. Xu Hao asked worriedly, "Wait, you said again that you forgot where the entrance is, do you know that we are in the right direction if we keep walking like this?"
"You talk a lot!" Xiao Yu glared back at him
"What if we go in the opposite direction?"
Xiao Yu glared at him again, "Shut up!"
"If we go in the opposite direction, we will never be able to go......"
Xiao Yu flashed behind Xu Hao, covered his mouth, and pulled him to jump backwards.
I saw that the place where Xu Hao was about to step on it collapsed in an instant, more than ten feet deep, and the sand on it flowed into the bottom like a flow, I don't know where to go, it was quicksand!
Xu Hao's eyes widened at the boss, his heart was pounding, it was so dangerous!
Feeling Xiao Yu's softness, his hand was close to his chapped lips, and the roots of his ears were red, and he didn't dare to move.
Xiao Yu opened his mouth, but did not make any sound, let go of the hand covering Xu Hao's mouth, and motioned for him not to speak.
Xu Haoxian suddenly realized that he was weaker than he had ever been, and he found that he was not capable of protecting himself in this desert, let alone protecting the people around him.
Xu Hao was frightened, and let Xiao Yu pull him back step by step, the quicksand under his feet was pressing towards the collapsed pit step by step, and the edge of the collapse spread rapidly, and the quicksand flow rate turned out to be faster.
This is the entrance to the ancient city, and it is impossible to leave this young man outside, Xiao Yu suddenly pulled Xu Hao and jumped to the center of the quicksand.
With Xu Hao's shout of "Ah......" both sank into the quicksand, but for a moment.
The moment he passed through the quicksand, it was a free-fall movement, and the momentary weightlessness was full, Xiao Yu suddenly remembered that there was a mortal beside him, and he couldn't help but gently hold it up with mana.
I don't know how long I landed in the dark, and fell gently, Xiao Yu withdrew the spell, Xu Hao couldn't adapt to the weightlessness for a while, and stumbled forward, almost feeling that he touched the ground with his hands to support him, and what his hands touched was not a hard floor, but a slippery and sticky thing, which frightened him to have hair in his heart, and he couldn't see his five fingers.
"Xiao Yu... Where are you?" the voices were shaking, almost crying.
Xiao Yu casually called the fire on the tip of the index finger and middle finger of his right hand, and instantly lit up a few square meters of space between the two, Xu Hao seemed to see Xiao Yu's back, he had a strong desire to survive, he jumped directly on Xiao Yu's back, his feet were in the air, and the whole person hung on Xiao Yu's body, how embarrassed he was.
"Don't, don't...... Don't dump me, please, please. There is something very disgusting on the ground!" Xu Hao hugged Xiao Yu's neck hard, and where he was strangled, his skin was already a little red.
Hearing Xu Hao's shouting, Xiao Yu felt a little pain in her neck, and she realized that her cultivation and mana seemed to have been greatly reduced, and even Xu Hao's strangulation could hurt her skin, and she couldn't help but be horrified.
"Hang it, hang it, don't move" After that, she turned to look at the place where Xu Haoyuan fell, it turned out to be a gray giant leech, the body was huge, the two of them couldn't hug it, how long was it?
Xu Hao's small movement just now didn't seem to wake it up, maybe it was sleeping.
"Come down, you're straining me a little bit" Xiao Yu had to say, "That thing is called Xi Shi Tongue, it's a giant beast in the ancient city, I guess it's sleeping, your thin arms and legs are not enough to wake it up." ”
"Okay, I'll come down, don't get too far away from me" Xu Hao fell to the ground with a loud voice.
"Boom............" There was a rumbling sound coming from nowhere. Xu Hao involuntarily followed Xiao Yu and crept forward, opening almost all the pore tentacles of his body.
From time to time, there was a rumbling sound, Xiao Yu did not see anything abnormal, and walked all the way along the passage, the walls on both sides were uneven, slightly dripping with water droplets, cool and shady, and from time to time there were gusts of wind, Xu Hao shivered.
"Xiao Yu, why do you want to come to this ghost place, there are still many people in the café waiting for you to go back...... , why don't we go back?" Xu Hao's heart was full of fear, fear came from this completely unknown world, and he had no power to fight back.
"I just want to recover my memory, and why the Hades disappeared..."Xiao Yu said this, and was silent for a while, "Then I appeared here with you, and I thought there might be a clue here." ”
"Oh......" Xu Hao suddenly didn't know what to say, "Then are you relying on your feelings now?"
"It's not"
"That's good"
"It's the only way"
“......”
"Walk ten miles until you reach the gates. If the memory is correct. ”
"Can you trust it?" Xu Hao asked cautiously.
"You can believe it, but you can only believe it, can't you?" Xiao Yu walked as he walked, the road in front of him became wider, and the stone wall changed from black and gray to colorful, which was originally carved with various forms of unicorn patterns, with wings and wings flying high, four-legged sprinting, colorful unicorn looking back, and giants with human faces and unicorn bodies, with different forms, some people have beasts and demons, all related to unicorns.
"Why are these all unicorn murals?" Xu Hao said, wanting to touch them with his hands.
Xiao Yu stopped in time, "Don't touch them! They are all real, they are not murals, they are sealed in murals by an immortal." I don't have much left of my cultivation, if I accidentally break the ban, they will all come out of the painting, and it's no problem for me to run by myself, you can't guarantee it. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a purple unicorn in the mural, and his eyes moved. Xiao Yu cast a spell into Xu Hao's mind, "Don't look at your eyes, this is a dream beast, you will be confused into the illusion, and it will be difficult to retreat." ”
Xu Hao's dizziness suddenly cleared up, "Didn't we enter the ancient tomb......?
"Hmm...... The ancient city is almost the same as the ancient tomb, but there is no other flower, which is very picky about the living environment and is only born in the secluded capital, because it is nourished by the soul. ”
"You say this place is so horrible, do you consider my feelings as a mortal?"
"Horror? It's all a common phenomenon, what's so scary?"
"A ghost, a god, a beast...... Isn't it scary?!"
"This is how the world is," Xiao Yu said, and suddenly his footsteps slowed down, and the booming and booming noises became more and more frequent, and the sound became louder and louder.
Xu Hao cautiously approached a little closer and a little closer, twisting his shyness, "If I say I want to go home, can you send me home first?"
"Can't," Xiao Yu blurted out without hesitation, "because I don't know how to go back." ”
"Ah...... Is this so......" Xu Hao looked incredulous, "Just the little water in the West Lake, blowing up the waves on the shoreline......"
"Did I blow it?" Xiao Yu had to admit that this young man was still arrogant, where did he get the courage?
"I'm the successor of socialism, and it's not my style to see death as home. Xu Hao really climbed up the bar and shook his bangs, "If we want to go, we will take the road of sustainable development!"
"Slow~" Xiao Yu shouted, listening intently.
Xu Hao nervously jumped to Xiao Yu's side and grabbed the corner of Xiao Yu's T-shirt.
"Hahaha......" Xiao Yu smiled heartily, although it was very captivating, it made Xu Hao embarrassed and cramped, and he couldn't help but blush.
"You're so cute...... Xiao Yu couldn't help pinching his pink face and said.
Xu Hao slapped her hand away angrily, turned his face away, and held his breath in his heart to make him uncomfortable. Can't tell if it's because she says he's cute, or because she's pinching his face, or because she's laughing at herself?
"Well, you are mortal, and you are indeed a vulnerable person in this ancient city. Xiao Yu couldn't help laughing, coughed twice, and said, "By the way, I will give you the trick to save your life at a critical moment." Come here."
Xu Hao hesitated to move his steps, Xiao Yu pointed his finger to his head, and a clear light entered his mind, and then countless ancient words poured in, "...... Those who feel its fire are bright, those who feel its gold are strong, those who feel its water are clear, those who feel its wood are kings, those who feel its soil are benevolent, and those who do not feel it die. Therefore, the five elements of heaven and earth, the five five twenty-five elements ......" (excerpted from "The Cave God Prison Qianjing")
"There are five thieves in the sky, and those who see them are prosperous. The five thieves are in the heart, the implementation is in the sky, the universe is in the hands, and the ten thousand transformations are born in the body" Xiao Yu said, "People have five elements, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, they can feel one of them, and their cultivation will rise to a higher level. ”
Xu Hao looked at the girl in front of him in a daze, and a familiar scene flashed in his mind, which seemed familiar. Xiao Yu's heart trick seemed to have existed in his mind for a long time, and Xiao Yu opened the door to this heart trick to a little bit of his brain.
"I understand" Xu Hao said, "If there is an evil spirit, then pinch the nail of the index finger with the big finger of the left hand, and straighten the remaining finger to make a knife shape."
Xiao Yu looked at Xu Hao in astonishment, she only knew that Jiu Li Ying was extremely enlightened, her eyes were up to her ears, and she had never had this understanding.
She asked, "Huh...... I didn't teach you the mantra gestures, how do you know?"
"Oh, this...... It's all done on TV, acting, don't you know?" Xu Hao admired his wit, otherwise how could he explain that he still knew those ghostly characters in modern times?
"TV, acting?" Xiao Yu wondered, what are these words.
"You don't know this...... Xu Hao became proud, and seemed to have finally regained his little sense of superiority, "If only ......"
"No need, it's just a gesture" Xiao Yu stopped him from continuing, "I can't exert my strength without my heart trick, we will pass by Jing Shuiyue in front, where ...... It's dangerous. ”
"How dangerous is that?" Xu Hao said.
"When you arrive, you'll know"
"Tell me in advance, so I can be mentally prepared......"
"I have taught you the trick of the heart, the index finger is gold, the middle finger is wood, and the two fingers together can make a fire. Xiao Yu said and gently blew out the flames on his fingers, and it was instantly pitch black.
"Ahhh......h I won't" I couldn't see my five fingers, I couldn't see Xiao Yu, I was so nervous that I was drenched in cold sweat, "Xiao Yu ......"
There was no response, Xu Hao didn't dare to go forward, and shouted Xiao Yu twice, but there was still no sound, it couldn't be that he left him after teaching the heart trick, right? Xu Hao held his breath, silently recited the heart trick in his heart, raised the middle finger and index finger of his right hand, and sure enough, a small flame was born, and Xu Hao was happy in his heart.
Xiao Yu, who was one step away in the light, looked at him with his hands and smiled, "The children can be taught, and the matter of making a fire will be handed over to you......"
Xu Hao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, his hands were still trembling, "Really leave it to me...... Is it reliable?"
"Reliable or unreliable, don't you have the bottom in your own heart?"
"No, I think it's about to go out, look, look, the flames are getting smaller and smaller......" Xu Hao looked at the flames nervously, his eyes did not squint, and his tone trembled as the flames became smaller.
"The fire is bright, the one who feels the fire is clear, and the heart is bright. Xiao Yu said lightly, "Keep the heart in mind, feel it with your heart, your heart is clear, even if there is no fire, your eyes are clear." ”
Xu Hao suddenly realized, closed his eyes to feel the fire, and thought about his heart, but after a while, he felt that his body and mind were clear, and this endless dark and gray passage also took shape in his heart.
I couldn't help but admire Xiao Yu's five bodies in my heart, "Xiao Yu, what kind of god are you?
Xiao Yu looked at Xu Hao, once Jiuli also asked her what kind of god she was, she replied very vigorously at that time, "I am a god incarnated by the righteousness of heaven and earth, surveying ten thousand ways, breaking ten thousand forms, probably the creation god!"
She didn't know, so she came back to her senses and said lightly: "I live in the Nine Heavens." ”
"Why did you come to this place? If you don't do a good immortal, what are you doing here?" Xu Hao asked cautiously
"Looking for people, looking for things......"
"Oh, why did you take me?" Xu Hao was a little aggrieved, "We have never met before, so we met for the first time......"
"I don't want to take you, I need your ring, but unfortunately you can't take it off, so you can only follow me. Xiao Yu glanced at him.
"Then you won't put me in danger, right? I guess if I'm dead and I can't take off the ring, it's better for you to carry a large living person than with a corpse......" Xu Hao didn't want to curse himself to death, the main thing here is really dangerous, he is a mortal .......
"If you die, you may be able to take it off, it's not connected to your flesh and blood......"
"......" Xu Hao was startled, feeling his neck flutter. hurriedly begged for mercy: "I'm joking, find what you want as soon as possible, let me go!"