After a sword long dream went offline, the three thousand troubled winds also went offline to eat, the bun was lying on the haystack and still asleep, Lin Ziyue was so bored that he rubbed the belly of the pastoral dog, the shadow didn't know what he was eating, the old man was drinking tea, the wind outside the hut was getting louder and louder, and the wind chimes outside the house kept tinkling.

"Shadow, what are you eating?" Lin Ziyue asked curiously.

"Shrimp crackers. The shadow winked at her, "You want it?" ”

The pastoral dog on the ground was so dissatisfied that he bared his teeth at the shadow: "You really don't have to worry about this human product like shrimp crackers, don't you know that it is made of locust powder?"

"What...... Locust powder?!" Shadow's hand shook, and the shrimp stick in his hand fell to the ground.

"Don't drop food anywhere, little ghost, be careful. The Pastoral Dog snorted through his nostrils.

"Locust powder is nothing, it's just protein. Lin Ziyue pouted, anyway, she was not afraid of that kind of thing.

Shadow's face twisted, picked up the shrimp crackers on the ground and threw them back into the bag, then put the bag away, and stared at the pastoral dog and Lin Ziyue.

"You're not so sensitive, be careful. Lin Ziyue muttered.

The old man put down his teacup, took a small cloth bag hanging from the fireplace, felt a small handful of light green sand, and threw it into the fireplace, and in an instant several white firebirds flew out of the fireplace, hovering and landing everywhere in the house, making a pleasant sound, and a symphony of birdsong sounded in the house.

"Wow, that's amazing!!What is this?" Lin Ziyue tried to touch a bird that stopped at her feet, the bird was very docile and shook its feathers, and whispered at her, but Lin Ziyue found that what she touched was like a small cloud of smoke, and where she touched it, the bird's body became blurred.

"The leaves of the Phantom Tree, ground into powder and burned in the fire, and then you see it, and it will turn into one of the memories of the Phantom Tree, but it will still be an illusion after all. The old man said slowly.

"But it's still a phantom after all...... At least they bring joy to people, don't they?" the shadow looked at a bird that landed on his shoulder, and reached out to wave away the phantom of the bird, and the phantasm of the bird flew up and circled and landed on the old man's shoulder.

Lin Ziyue looked up at the old man: "What is the Phantom Tree?"

"A long time ago, a kind of tree unique to this land, you have also seen, the Illusory Tree can only create these illusions after it has been cut down to ashes, so they were quickly cut down, and the Illusory Tree became extinct, and the remaining powder finally became a priceless treasure, because there are probably no more Illusory Trees left in this world. The old man's voice said slowly.

"That's why it's only a piece of yellow sand outside, hehe, it's really in line with the human setting. The shadow laughed coldly.

Lin Ziyue gently poked the phantom bird at his feet with her hand, and said, "It shouldn't just be the problem of the phantom tree, isn't it because this area is so dry, isn't it because of the lack of water?" I saw a well in the backyard, since there is water, it shouldn't be so dry?"

"It's not trees, it's not water, it's soil. ”

"Soil?" Lin Ziyue and Shadow asked at the same time.

The old man writhed a pinch of dust and threw it into the fire, and this time several butterflies flew around the house.

"The life of the land was taken away, so the land dried up, and what was planted never grew, and people naturally moved away from the place. ”

Lin Ziyue and Shadow didn't speak for a while, the room fell silent, and the birds began to disappear one by one, turning into a cloud of green dust and disappearing into the air.

"It's time? quite a short time limit. The shadow said.

"Well...... I always feel like it's a pity. Lin Ziyue whispered, reluctantly watching the bird disappear at her feet.

"It's a phantom, what's the pity?"

"It would be nice if it could last forever, and if such a beautiful thing could be preserved forever, so that more people could see it. Lin Ziyue said this, and the shadow didn't notice a dark light in her eyes.

"Hmm...... How long have I been asleep?"

There was a vague ** from the bun, he got up from the haystack, patted the straw sticks stuck to his body, and asked, "Why are you two?"

"Hung up. "Down. Lin Ziyue and the shadow spoke at the same time.

"It's not there anyway, isn't it......" Baozi rubbed his head, "Ah, I seem to have drunk something?"

"Just tea. The old man picked up another cup and handed it to the bun.

"Don't drink, don't drink. Lin Ziyue hurriedly stopped the old man.

A few people sat quietly in the house, and the wind outside finally became quieter, and Lin Ziyue felt that it was almost over: "The sandstorm has passed?"

The old man replied, "Yes, are you going to wait for those two people, or do you want to continue on your way?"

Lin Ziyue looked at each other with Baozi and Shadow, and finally decided to wait for the two to go online, so the three of them also planned to go offline to rest for a while.

Lin Ziyue came out of the game cabin, and sure enough, the sofa was empty, Su Jiujiu had already left for a while, and it was already dark outside, she sighed, I hope Su Jiujiu will do well.

Lin Ziyue casually put on her coat and went downstairs along the elevator to take a walk, as soon as she went out, she saw a crow parked on the street lamp outside, she was a little away from the crow, but the crow flew over and fluttered and landed on the street lamp beside her.

"......" Lin Ziyue lowered her head and walked a few steps faster, the crow simply stopped at the street lamp, but instead flew around hovering over her head, dropping several feathers on Lin Ziyue's body.

"Are you sick!" Lin Ziyue was so annoyed that she swept the feathers off her body, roared at the crow, and then trotted up in embarrassment under the frightened eyes of passers-by, and after all the way out of the community, the bird was still flying back and forth overhead.

Lin Ziyue got into a small restaurant on the street, rushed to the front desk, ordered a few barbecues casually and packed them away, as soon as she went out, the crow followed again, she walked to a place where there was no one, put one of the boxes on the ground, and shouted at the crow overhead: "Come down." ”

As if he understood Lin Ziyue's words, the crow hovered and landed on the side of the box, tilting his head to look at Lin Ziyue.

"Please. Lin Ziyue muttered and pushed the box of barbecue at the crows. The crow called "wow, wow" twice, buried its head in eating barbecue, and when it raised its head again, Lin Ziyue was gone, the crow angrily kicked over the lunch box, and rushed into the sky to look around, but it was too dark after the night, even it couldn't tell where Lin Ziyue went, so it had to fly out along a road first.

Lin Ziyue, who got rid of her follower, hummed a strange tune in her mouth, and took the remaining boxes of barbecue to the riverside where she usually walked, where she finished eating while watching the night view, but when she walked to the bench where she usually sits, she found that it was already occupied, and it was a drunk man who was sleeping on the bench and snoring loudly.

Lin Ziyue looked around, there was no one else, she didn't dare to venture forward to find out this person, so she shook her head and walked to another bench not far away.

Sitting on the bench, eating a barbecue that was still hot, Lin Ziyue took out a can of soda, and after opening it with a "bang", a ** sound immediately sounded in her ears, and she panicked and found that the man who was full of alcohol was staring at the bottle cap in her hand.

"Soda. ”

Hearing Lin Ziyue's words, the man was so depressed that he once again lay on the bench and sniffled at the fragrant barbecue.

"Uh...... Forget it, just take it as my bad luck......" Lin Ziyue said this, picked up a few skewers of barbecue and stuffed them into the man's hand, and the man immediately gnawed on it with taste.

"You say thank you. Lin Ziyue complained like this, leaning on the railing by the river a few steps ahead, the evening breeze gave her a little headache, what happened in the past few days seemed to overturn her cognition, since she played the phantom world, she seemed to have more and more headaches.

"Wow wow!" the crow's cry sounded, and Lin Ziyue covered her face in distress, and her head hurt even more.

"Come back, please rest and travel. The world is contrary to me, and I am begging for words?!" The man's voice sounded under the night sky, and when Lin Ziyue turned around, she happened to see a wooden skewer with a skewer stuck in the crow's wings, which fell from the air and fell to the ground, and the man picked up another skewer and gnawed it.

"What are you doing!" Lin Ziyue instantly threw down the skewers and soda in his hand and rushed to the annoying crow. The crow lay in a pool of blood and feathers twitching, struggling to get up from the ground, Lin Ziyue was ruthless, pulled out the wooden stick, and then immediately took out a tissue and covered the crow's wings, the crow stopped struggling, let her use the tissue, clumsily wrapped her wings layer by layer.

"What do I do...... I want to ask, what are you doing, right?" The man walked over with a wooden skewer in his mouth, stood in front of Lin Ziyue and blocked the light, and his shadow fell on Lin Ziyue.

The man raised his foot and stepped on the crow's other wing, Lin Ziyue instantly stretched out his hand and supported his foot with his arm, he removed his foot, took the wooden skewer in his mouth, and laughed: "Haha, so, what are you doing!"

Then the man raised the wooden stick in his hand, and Lin Ziyue immediately rushed at him, viciously snatched the wooden stick from his hand, and glared at him coldly.

"Such a vicious gaze, it's really familiar haha...... I admire you, would you be interested in learning the craft from me?" said the man as he pulled out a military flask from his waist and poured himself a few sips with his mouth.

"Get out!" Lin Ziyue shouted with a wooden skewer to the man's face, frowning.

The man's smile became brighter and brighter, and then a sword light flashed between the two, Lin Ziyue's hand shook, the wooden stick had become two halves, and fell to the ground against the man's end, Lin Ziyue saw that the man was holding a seven-foot long sword in his hand, and there was a fiery red sword spike and a jade pendant tied to it.

"I'll ask you again, are you interested in learning the trade from me? This is the second time I've offered to take in an apprentice, I'm ...... Hey!" Lin Ziyue didn't wait for the man to finish, she stabbed the man with the remaining half of the wooden stick in his hand, and the man knocked it on the wrist with the hilt of his sword, and after the pain, Lin Ziyue dropped the half of the wooden stick to the ground.

"I'm not interested. Lin Ziyue leaned down, carefully held the crow in her arms, turned around and walked home, ignoring the man's shouts behind her, and did not look back all the way until the man could no longer see her.

The man stood in place, helplessly touching the back of his head, just now he actually saw the crow poking out half of his head from Lin Ziyue's shoulder, rolling his eyes at him, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, he threw his sword on the ground angrily, and hummed angrily holding the barbecue left by Lin Ziyue and gnawing it.

Lin Ziyue returned to the apartment, and after going around the house, she put the crow in the helmet box that Su Jiujiu bought newly, although it was a little squeezed, it could still be loaded, and the crow was unhappy and shouted at Lin Ziyue, "Wow".

"You must be too fat! How can there be such a fat crow!" Lin Ziyue also called at the crow.

"Wow, wow!"

"I'll buy a cage tomorrow and come back!

"Wow!!!"

"Why don't you sleep in a cage, why do you want to sleep in my bed!!!Shut up!"

The crow stopped crowing, flapping the carton with its still intact wings, and staring at Lin Ziyue with black eyes, Lin Ziyue felt that her head was starting to hurt again. What are you doing, you are so serious about being angry with a crow.

"I'll get you some medicine first, don't move. ”

After Lin Ziyue gave the crow some medicine and bandaged it again, a wave of tiredness swelled up, Lin Ziyue turned off the lamp in the living room, fell on the sofa, and soon fell asleep.

The crow jumped out of the cage, jumped and jumped, jumped from the coffee table to the sofa, landed on Lin Ziyue, found a more comfortable position and closed his eyes.

When Lin Ziyue woke up, she was so shaken by the bright sunlight in front of her that she couldn't open her eyes, and it took a while to react that she had slept until three o'clock in the morning.

"Sorry!" she slammed up from the couch, only to see as if something had rolled off her body and fell to the ground with a "poof".

"Huh, when did you get out? Lin Ziyue picked up the crow that fell to the ground and fell a little confused, put it in the box again, quickly changed his clothes and ran out of the door, and ran back in less than half an hour, carrying several bags, and put the large bird's nest in his hand on the table, Lin Ziyue proudly pressed the crow inside, and then ran into the kitchen, and after a while came out with two small bowls, one bowl contained bird food, and the other bowl contained boiled water.

"Okay, there's something to eat and drink!" Lin Ziyue said with a grin, and the crow tentatively ate two bites of bird food, stuck out its tongue, retracted its head into the nest and continued to sleep.

After Lin Ziyue solved a few buns, she immediately got back into the game cabin, and after she went online, she saw the shadow squatting in front of the fireplace, as if turning over something, the old man was half-squinting on a deck chair, and the pastoral dog was lying at her feet.

"I'm sorry, I'm late, I fell asleep last night. Lin Ziyue said to the shadow, walked up to him, and found that he was in the fireplace that had been extinguished, and received the ashes into a small bag.

"Ah, you finally came up, they have already set off, and Sanqian and the old man received the task, so the three of them went to search for the mission first, looking for the lost source of the earth, and I stayed and waited for you. The shadow said casually, seeing that the bag was almost full, and after tying the mouth of the bag, it was in his pocket.

"Then let's go now?" Lin Ziyue asked.

The shadow nodded, "Let's go." ”

"Then when you leave, by the way, help me send this to Drifting City, and give it to the Skill Guild Leader in the city. The old man, who had been lying in a chair, spoke, pointing to a burden on the table.

"Good. Lin Ziyue took the package, checked it, and showed it as a task item, so she tried to put it in her pocket, and sure enough, she could put it in.

"Then the end of the wind and the yellow sand is the destination of your journey. The old man said this, closed his eyes, and the rocking chair swayed back and forth, making a "squeak" sound.

After the two said goodbye to the old man, they went out, and it was already late at night in the illusory world at this time, and Lin Ziyue suddenly had some expectations, watching the sun rise from the horizon on such a desolate plain would be spectacular.

The two silently moved forward side by side, the shadow would slightly deflect the direction of the forward direction from time to time, and Lin Ziyue also followed him to change the direction, without saying anything all the way.

After walking for about an hour, a ray of light rose from the distant horizon, and Lin Ziyue watched excitedly as the sun rose from a small point of light, tearing apart the black night sky, and the orange-red light became more and more dazzling, and finally turned into a white ball of light and climbed into the air.

"That's great......" Lin Ziyue couldn't help but sigh.

"It's amazing, isn't it? What should have been just a collection of program code can become such a beautiful world, and sometimes I wonder if the Phantom World is a program or something else?"

Lin Ziyue looked at the shadow and laughed: "Maybe you found some time and space gate!"

The shadow pouted embarrassedly: "What the hell......"

The small talk between the two was quickly interrupted, and the two noticed that the yellow sand around them was becoming less and less unconsciously, and the loess under their feet was replaced by soft soil, and a deep ditch could be faintly seen in front of them.

"The end of the sand...... The river. The shadow trotted up, and Lin Ziyue had to follow him and trot all the way.

The two arrived at the empty river, the width of the river far exceeded Lin Ziyue's imagination, at least nearly two hundred meters, and the depth was about dozens of meters, but there was only a thin section of water at the bottom, and from a distance, a small strand of hair seemed to be horizontal in the river, slowly flowing through.

"This water...... Why are there so few?" Lin Ziyue asked the shadow suspiciously.

The shadow showed a slightly evil smile: "We're half an hour early, let's wait." ”

So Lin Ziyue and the shadow sat on the bank of the river, and after more than twenty minutes, a roar came into Lin Ziyue's ears, as if something was roaring and rushing in this direction, she looked around uneasily, but was pulled down by the shadow, and looked in the direction that the shadow was pointing to, upstream of the river, a city was slowly moving towards the two, like a huge monster galloping in the river, slowly moving along the trajectory of the river.

Lin Ziyue stared blankly at the rushing river under the city, rushing madly into the river, and soon the empty river was filled, and the fierce river carried the tall city and floated in the direction of the two of them along the river.

"I'm introducing you to the Drifting City of the Miscellaneous Basin!" the shadow's eyes gleamed with pride, pointing to the city on a hill-like island that was slowly moving.