Chapter Seventy-Three: The Dry Forest
Soon Xia Lian had to follow Mentor Ke Yu, but her face was full of unhappiness, she clasped her hands on her chest, turned her face away, and made it clear that she didn't want to listen to Yin Jiuchen's explanation, which made Yin Jiuchen very distressed.
"That's it, Lian, how about I accompany you to find your spirit pet during the holidays?" Yin Jiuchen didn't want Xia Lian to be unhappy all the time, after this event, there were still two months to start the holiday.
"Really?" Xia Lian finally turned around.
"Seriously!" Yin Jiuchen's tone was resolute.
"Until you find it with me?"
"This ......" Yin Jiuchen hesitated for a moment, but immediately reacted and replied resolutely: "Yes!"
"That's pretty much it. Xia Lian finally stopped keeping her face tight.
"We're gone, be careful, and hopefully don't see your distress signals again. Mentor Ke Yu was the last to jump on the back of the day, spread his wings as wide as ten zhang during the day, stirred up a huge whirlwind, and took off into the air.
"Are we going back to escort the caravan?" Qiu Muyi was an honest man, and remembered the mission of guarding the caravan.
"If I go back at this time, I'm afraid I will be arrested and beaten by those mercenaries. Miyatsu Yu shook his head, there had been a dispute just now, and the mercenaries were angry.
"Then go straight to the end of Misty City?"
Yin Jiuchen now had two red-veined tokens in his hand, and he had the idea of continuing to collect them.
While the three boys were pondering, a weak voice suddenly sounded: "If there is no route, why don't I take you to a place?"
Hearing this pleasant voice, the three big boys remembered that there were other people in the team.
"What place?" Yin Jiuchen asked curiously, the place that can make this eldest lady pay attention is definitely not simple.
"All I remember is the general direction, it's a strange village. Yun Xiao was also a little embarrassed, her memory was a little vague, as if she had been to a certain place in the desert before.
With directions, the four of them began to study the route of travel.
......
The sun was blazing, the ground was hot, and even the wind was about to burn, and Yin Jiuchen felt that he was about to lose it.
The three people next to them didn't look very good, they were three days away from the nearest oasis, and if they couldn't find the village in Yun Xiaoyi's mouth one day, they would have to return.
"I'm sorry, my memory is so vague. Yun Xiaoyi herself is a kind and empathetic girl, but she didn't expect her willfulness to make Yin Jiuchen and the three of them suffer, and she was very upset.
"It's okay, just train how to use aura to protect the body for a long time. ”
"I'm feeling okay,"
"I'm fine. ”
In front of the beautiful maidens, the boys were always stubborn, laughing, and climbing up another tall sand dune, which had been repeated countless times of climbing and descending, and they were already very numb.
"Hey, look!" Qiu Muyi, who was walking in front, suddenly called.
Yin Jiuchen hurriedly walked to the top of the sand dune.
In front of him, a dense mass of dry tree trunks towered, and it seemed that it was once a small forest, but now it was all eroded by the wind and sand.
"How could it be ......" Yun Xiaoyi's eyes were distracted, this was not the same as the blurry picture that flashed in her mind, in her memory, this was originally a rare oasis in the middle of the barren desert, with lush trees and full of life.
She ran down the sand dunes and headed straight for the middle of the dry forest.
Yin Jiuchen glanced at Qiu Muyi and Gong Jinyu, and they all followed as soon as possible.
There are obvious avenues in the dry forest, which is evidence that humans have lived here, and as the four of them go deeper, the traces of human civilization become more and more obvious, and more and more broken eaves appear on both sides of the road, and it can be guessed that this place was once very lively.
But I don't know what happened, the people here are gone, and the trees are dying. Could it be that there is something wrong with the water source? But even if the oasis is eroded by wind and sand, it will not erode the oasis the size of a small forest all at once.
Yun Xiaoyi's footsteps never stopped, she panicked for no reason, and a voice in her heart told her to hurry to the deepest part. She ran through the inhabited area, into the jungle behind, and after a long time, finally came to a halt by a dry pool three feet above the ground and about a foot wide.
Her eyes widened, her eyes filled with disbelief, and she muttered a word.
"How can this be ......"
Yin Jiuchen and the three of them quickly followed, looking at the dry pool and the girl who bowed her head and sobbed, and was silent.
"Have you been here before?" asked Yin Jiuchen softly.
Yun Xiao also nodded, but quickly shook his head again.
"Uh......" Unaware of the girl's delicate thinking, Yin Jiuchen jumped into the dry pool and searched for clues in his own way.
There was nothing to look at in the pool, it was all dried and cracked soil, Yin Jiuchen stepped on the ground in frustration, but he didn't expect the sound of cracking soil from the ground.
"Wouldn't it?" Yin Jiuchen looked down at the ground, as soon as the ground that originally looked solid was loosened, he had nowhere to borrow his strength, and fell down, and Yun Xiao, who was on the edge of the pool, didn't want to throw away Xiao Zi in his arms, and jumped down.
When Miyatsu Yu and Qiu Muyi, who were checking around the pool, rushed to the edge of the pool after realizing it, they had lost their traces, and some were only swarthy and bottomless holes.
......
Yin Jiuchen didn't know how deep he fell, there should be a few hundred meters, fortunately there was water below, otherwise he would have broken a lot of bones.
What puzzled him a little was that Yun Xiaoyi also came down, she didn't follow her to stand in the pool, right?
"Come with me over here. Yin Jiuchen's eyes lit up purple, took Yun Xiaoyi's hand, and swam towards the shore. They were in a small pond with open space on the shore to stand.
On the shore, Yin Jiuchen turned around to check Yun Xiaoyi's state, this time he almost couldn't take his eyes off, there were few clothes in the desert, and the main outer layer of gauze resisted the hot wind and the sun, after this gauze was soaked in water, it was attached to the girl's body, and the delicate figure was more prominent.
"You, you wring out your clothes first, and I'll go around and see how things are going. Yin Jiuchen fled and left.
Yun Xiao also noticed Yin Jiuchen's unnaturalness, and when he saw his seductive appearance in his gaze, he couldn't help blushing.
Not all around is a stone wall, there is a narrow passage that leads to nowhere, Yin Jiuchen walked around this underground, except for the exit that is almost invisible on his head, there is only another passage here.
He walked back to discuss with Yun Xiaoyi, who had already wrung out his clothes, at least they didn't look so blood-pumping.
"I've found a passage, let's go check it out, maybe there's an exit. ”
"Good. ”
“...... Why did you jump off just now?" Yin Jiuchen said as he walked in front of him, pretending to be inadvertent.
"I didn't think about anything, but when I saw you fall, I jumped with you. ”
"......" There is such a beautiful woman thinking about him, of course Yin Jiuchen is happy, but he really doesn't know what kind of relationship he has between him and Yun Xiaoyi, and the strange connection between them doesn't know where it comes from, so he can only take one step at a time.