The Sea of Fire

Vol. 1 Glean and Collect Scraps (於節,組組。 )

Chapter 1: The Executioner

In the inky sky, the red moon hung high, and the shallow clouds could not stop the light of the red moon, and the entire sky was rendered in jade red. The wind blows the white sand, making them flow constantly, from time to time there will be transparent flames in the sand, in the rendering of the moonlight, the flames are also attached to the color of jade, like a jade-red antelope on the white cloth, seemingly well-behaved, but deep in horror.

The executioner had two small gray-white heads covered with silver fluff, and it had a light gray beak, long and thick, covered with thick sheaths from top to bottom, and the two beaks were straight and sharp like two spears. The two necks are long and stocky with sparse gray feathers that expose their white skin, and the muscles in their necks support its head. The left head has one and only one left eye, which is above the left oblique of the left head, and the right head has and only one right eye, which is above the right oblique of the right head. Beneath its stubby torso are its incomparably thick pink arms and legs, each with three slightly close claws in front of each arm, and the feet under the legs are also pink, and only two toes, the inner toe is stout, and the outer toe is small.

The two adult executioners and the four juvenile executioners dodged the flames while trying to walk on the white sand as carefully as possible, gently stepping on the sand to avoid falling into the quicksand, which would undoubtedly turn to ashes in the jade red flames.

In this red night, only the caravan will continue to move forward. Eight people in dark purple wraps, wearing dark purple headscarves and face scarves, the eight people's wraps were all broken, more or less stained with their own dust and the dust of their companions, and the headscarves and face towels were also cracked. The face behind the face towel was uniformly dyed with deep tiredness and only a hint of happiness. Two of the eight were already faltering, and their eyes were even beginning to drift.

Behind each of them was a large, bloated ink-colored cloth backpack, and although everyone was covered in scars, everyone's ink-colored cloth backpack was invariably intact. The cloth backpack was filled with water bottles of fresh water they had brought from the Land of Origin. For people living in the desert, "water" is the most valuable treasure, not only to survive for themselves and their families, but also to exchange water for other items they need for survival, such as rations, clothing, and if they are lucky, they can also exchange for broken weapons and armor, so that they and their families can have more chances to live.

The caravan was about to climb over the largest sand dunes in the desert, and the view would be much wider, allowing them to avoid many difficulties and even avoid many disasters, such as the six executioners they had encountered while climbing a small dune. Encountering a person to be executed is one of the most unfortunate things that happen in the desert.

The two adult executioners and the four juvenile executioners left the sea of fire and came to this non-fire sea area, which could relax a little compared to the previous sea of fire area. After a short rest and observation of the surroundings, there was nothing to consider a dangerous creature, and the two adult executioners were relieved, but the four juvenile executioners were still at their toes, and they still could not be taken lightly. A sparse sound could be heard from the nearby sand dunes, and the adult executioners were alerted. His eyes stared closely at the sand dunes where the sound came from, and in three breaths, several black shadows appeared on the dunes, and the black shadows slowly increased, and finally in the eyes of the executioners, there were fifteen black shadows. It was a caravan of fifteen ancient peoples.

Fifteen ancient people are climbing over the sand dunes one after another, the two adult executioners are very nervous, let the four young executioners stay around their toes, they invariably stretch their necks in the direction of the fifteen ancient people, their own fluff and feathers are also erected, they hope that this can deter the crowd on the sand dunes, but the caravan of fifteen ancient people just want to hurry back to the nearest Ji village to settle down, the weight on their shoulders and sore limbs make them have no time to care about the surrounding situation, and the warning of the adult executioner is also among them。 The caravan descended the dunes and had entered the area of attack of the executioners. By this time, it was too late to realize that the adult and juvenile executioners were not far away. The female adult executioner stood by the young executioners, and the male adult executioner restored the outstretched neck to its original shape, and then lowered its body slightly, bending its legs, and tightening its toes to allow it to run on the white desert as if it were running on the ground. Within a few breaths of the crowd, it had reached their side, with only four men with mutilated weapons, barely able to withstand the attacks of the male adult executioners.

Two light gray beaks stabbed them like spears, passing through their resistance and defense from time to time, piercing a hole in the bodies of the ancients, and then, through the strength of the neck muscles, pierced through the hole it pierced in the blink of an eye, piercing out, turning the small hole flowing with honey yellow dust into a hole gushing out of honey yellow dust.

Four men with mutilated weapons, working in pairs, fend off the attack of a bird's beak from the male adult executioner. But the executioners attacked more frequently and quickly than they could have imagined. After all, the weapon in his hand was mutilated, and he could not completely resist every attack of the executioner, and many wounds appeared on his body and limbs one after another, and one person had even been pierced by the executioner through two dust holes. Coupled with the long-distance travel and overload, their physical strength has long been exhausted, and they are physically and mentally exhausted, and it is already difficult for them to resist the attacks from the executioners, and it is even more difficult to consider the remaining eleven unarmed ancient peoples, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a fantasy.

Compared with the helpless struggle of the four, the executioner appeared to be very comfortable, allowing his attack to take care of the four who were armed, and the remaining eleven who were fleeing in all directions. Over time, the male adult executioner's attacks were not as aggressive as they had been at the beginning, and his physical strength had declined, and he was no longer able to juggle both the armed and the unarmed. Those who were struggling on the brink of death would not give up hope that they had finally appeared, and their numb and even supposedly immobile bodies began to move, and their legs and feet, which were already dripping with honey, puffed out their muscles and muscles, helping them to stay away from the executioners. This alone is not enough to keep them truly away from the executioners. The four men with mutilated weapons fended off the attack as they looked at each other. They knew that someone had to stay at this point before the rest could actually escape from here.

Just as the four of them looked at each other, the shortest of the four ancient people, failed to resist the attack of the executioner, and a dust hole was pierced in the right chest, and he was the one who was injured the most before, plus the dust hole in his right chest now, there were already seven dust holes on his body, and the pain and dust loss had made his body unable to support him to continue struggling, and death should come in a few breaths. His hand holding the weapon gradually began to tremble, the heat gradually began to turn to cold, the sleepiness could no longer be stopped by his will, everything in his eyes gradually blurred, he used the last strength to throw the weapon in his hand towards the tall ancient people who had just been fighting with him, and after doing this, he closed his eyes, gave up and let go of the only struggle he had.

The tall Ancients had not been able to receive the weapons of the Short Ancients, and although he had exhausted all his strength with a flick before he died, the truth was that his remaining strength was very weak, and he could only barely throw the weapon between the tall and the short. The remaining three people who were still struggling all saw the short man's actions before he died, and their eyes all looked at the weapon that originally belonged to the short man, although it was a little worn and broken, rust scattered all over the corner of the weapon, and the whole was yellowed and old, but it was still very precious.

The three of them exchanged glances with each other, and they had the same thing in mind. Almost at the same time, the three of them began to move, with the tallest one being the most predominant, who was the closest to the weapon. When the tall man came to the weapon, he picked it up without hesitation, then dodged two attacks from the executioner, turned and began to run. When he picked up the weapon, the other two took in everything, they had no chance to get this weapon, at this moment when their lives were in danger to compete with Gao Gao for this weapon, it was very likely that they would die because of their greed and desire, and lose their lives, then everything was meaningless, the two decisively gave up the idea of weapons, and even decisively gave up resisting, and immediately turned around and ran. The tall one started behind the other two because of picking up weapons, and when he turned around, the gap between him, who was originally the farthest away from the executioner, disappeared in an instant, and the three of them were on the same running line. At the same time as the three of them ran, the male adult executioner also began to gallop together, and without anyone in the way, the executioner moved more freely, and the tight muscles on the pink legs began to play a role at this time, and in the blink of an eye, it caught up with the three people who were galloping.

The tall man ran hard, and he knew that only if he ran faster than the two people next to him could he have a better chance of surviving. has the heart but the strength is insufficient, the body has already reached the limit, and the two people next to him are the same. At this time, the two people next to him may have an advantage over him, because he is the only one with two weapons on his body, and the other two are only one weapon each. In order to survive, he was ready to abandon his short weapon. He subconsciously glanced back, and the first thing that caught his eye was the male adult executioner who was running, with two shaking gray-white bird heads and a single eye on the bird's head. Then what caught his eye was the corpse that gradually became smaller and shorter in his field of vision, and the seven blood holes that should have been clearly visible gradually disappeared one by one, and if he continued to run, the short man would disappear as well...... The tall left hand trembled incessantly, even though he was no longer conscious, but it was still trembling, shaking more and more, and he could no longer fully hold the short weapon, and in a breath, the short weapon broke away from his hand, fell towards the desert, and gently inserted into the white sand. The three of them subconsciously looked at the weapons inserted into the white sand at the same time, and the other two just glanced at them before continuing to run. The tall man stopped running, turned around and picked up the short man's weapon, and headed for the executioner. With the tall man in the way, the other two men with mutilated weapons escaped the range of the executioner and were able to join the remaining survivors of the caravan. The survivors of the caravan counted the casualties and property damage. In addition to the tall one, only eight remained, and all six of them died from the loss of dust. There were only six bags and two weapons left. But for them, the blessing of misfortune is that they are still alive.

The tall man stood alone in the way of the executioner, no accident, and the tall man followed in the footsteps of the short one, and no one knew why he gave up running, and perhaps no one cared about the thoughts of a dead man......

The male adult executioner opened his beak and hissed to call out to the female adult executioner and the four juvenile executioners, and a few seconds after hearing the neighing sound, the female adult executioner escorted the four juvenile executioners to the side of the male adult executioner, holding a corpse in his mouth and carrying a bloated ink-colored cloth backpack, the first to die of the ancient people with mutilated weapons. It lowered the corpse in its mouth on the white sand, then bent its neck and used its two bird heads to push the four juvenile executioners to the toes of the male adult executioner, and he himself took the short and tall corpses not far away and put them next to the juvenile executioners, then cut the three cloth backpacks with his paws, took the water bottles out of the cloth backpack one by one with his beak, carefully placed them on the sand, and then closed the beak tightly, inserted the water bottle stopper, and pulled them all out. Four juvenile executioners scrambled to the side of the water bottles, bending their necks to stick their tiny heads into the water bottles, enjoying the moist joy of their father's victory, and after drinking bitterly, the four juvenile executioners let out a crisp cry at the male executioner, and their father responded to them in a low, hoarse voice. As they continued to taste their food, the adult executioners began to hold the water bottles with their beaks, pouring the clear fresh water into their throats. The three ancient people could not even satisfy the four juvenile executioners, and the bodies of the three disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving only three skeletons left.

For the two adult executioners, the first thing to do was to feed their children, and it was tolerable to starve themselves.

At this point, the male adult executioner slowly bent his legs and knelt on the white sand, his neck bent downward, and the two bird's heads drooped downward. The female adult executioner walked up to it so that its two heads could rest on its stubby body, feel its mate's trembling, listen to her mate's somewhat rapid gasps, and rejoice that she could hear her mate's hissing instead of constant silence.

The distant Ancients had disappeared from their sight, giving the adult executioners plenty of security. It is a blessing for the young executioners to know what fear is for them and for the adult executioners, and even if they always do, it is never a bad thing to be later.

After the male adult executioners recovered, they led the young executioners along with the female executioners in searching for the remaining ancient human corpses, perhaps this was their luckiest day recently, or perhaps this was their most fearful day recently......