Chapter 10: The Ruins of the Sand Sea
The camel's neck could not completely shield us from the wind and sand, but he slowed down the speed at which the sand covered us. www.biquge.info When I peeled off the sand that had accumulated on Bao Cai and Wang Bajian, the camel would stand up from time to time, shake off the sand from his body, and then kneel down to protect us.
Over and over...... I don't know how many times it was repeated, until the sand thinned out, and three camels stood up, and the other three were still kneeling on the ground, and one of them had a hump that seemed to have been scratched by something, and a large piece of flesh was gone. It has sand sticking to its wounds, and if it is not treated in time, it will become inflamed. They looked at me, and I understood what they were trying to say.
The treasure is relatively light, Wang Bajian's figure is the same as the ancestor, relatively strong, I spent a lot of effort to carry the two of them on the camel, but the distance between the humps is relatively small, Wang Bajian's body hangs on it, it is estimated that when the camel drives away, his ribs will be panicked.
The wind swept by, the sand and dust were loose, and after carrying him, my calves sank into the sea of sand again. Before getting on the camel, I looked around and shouted at the old ancestor and the little Taoist priest with my voice open, but there was no response. All the six camels we bought at that time are here, and the other one is nowhere to be found, and if I want to go now, my ancestors will have no mounts if they are still alive.
I got on my camels, and they formed a line of their own, and they marched forward against the wind and sand. I lowered my head and blocked it with my hands, looking around, hoping to find them, but the thick sand and dust had completely obscured everything.
I didn't know what to feel in my heart, I lifted the face towel and kept shouting, and the dust flew into my mouth, and I continued to shout...... Camels are very recognizant in the desert, and although I don't know where they are taking us, my rescue has made me trust them 100%. I know very well that although the sand and dust are small now, the visibility is still not high, and it is very difficult to find a needle in the sand.
I don't know how long or how far the camel walked until it came to a relatively flat place after going around a towering sand mountain. I looked forward with my hand blocking the sand and dust, and in the dark yellow of the sky, I could vaguely see the outline of the building. I was overjoyed, thinking that this might be the earthen fort that Kushi was talking about, and I couldn't help but pat the camel's neck excitedly, and I was very grateful.
As you get closer, it becomes clear that it's not so much an earthen fort as a weathered ruin. Forged from compacted earth, the years and the unforgiving wind and sand have not brought it down, and it stands in the vast sea of sand, becoming a refuge for lost humanity.
I looked at the vicissitudes of history, stared at it for a long time, turned over and got off the camel, hugged Baocai and Wang Bajian, the camels were too tired, leaned together, and rested.
The earthen fort may have been a small city in the past, and most of the buildings in the town were swallowed up, leaving the taller buildings still standing outside. I dragged Baocai and Wang Bajian under a stump roof, and the two of them breathed evenly, but they just couldn't wake up.
The wind outside was whistling, and people were hairy when they heard it. I slapped Baocai and Wang Bajian's cheeks, both of them had a thin layer of yellow sand on their faces, and their lips were cracked, and Wang Bajian shouted in a daze: "Water...... Water ......"
As soon as I heard this, I hurriedly took out a cowhide pouch from my waist and poured water into Baocai and Wang Bajian's mouths, and soon he coughed and woke up.
They looked around and asked me what was going on, and I told me about it, and the treasure was so excited that he rushed outside and gave the resting camel a hug. His kindness to them was probably the main reason why the camels came back to save us.
He treated the wounds of the wounded camels, and we brought a lot of herbs with us on this trip, most of which were seedlings prepared for us by Lan Quexi's uncle. In the desert, water was precious, but the treasure was given to the camel to wash its wounds. When he took the medicine, he named the camels, mine was "Jixiang", Wang Bajian's head was called "Ruyi", and his own head was called "Fa Da Cai".
I listened to his name, smiled wryly and shook my head, the dust gradually faded away, it was already night, I restlessly leaned on the side of the camel to keep warm, my heart was very worried about the ancestors and them, but the black light blinded me and could not see anything, only the silver moon in the sky hit the ground, a shallow light.
Baocai comforted me and said: "Don't think too much, your ancestors and half-immortals did not die so early in history, it is estimated that they are taking refuge somewhere like us now, and when the morning dawns and the sight is good, we will look for it again." ”
I nodded helplessly, although I was anxious, but I also knew that it was useless to be anxious now, so I planned to close my eyes and recuperate. At this moment, Wang Bajian suddenly came to my side and lowered his voice, "Did you hear any movement?"
I was shocked by what he said, and now the wind is whistling outside, there is no other movement except this, but Wang Bajian's ear power is outstanding, there must be something wrong, so I asked him: "What movement?"
Wang Bajian mysteriously leaned into my ear, lowered his voice and said, "Footsteps ......"
Speaking of footsteps, I was overjoyed, and hurriedly said, "Could it be Boss Feng and them?"
Wang Bajian grabbed me and said, "Wait, these footsteps are much heavier than Boss Feng's......"
On this kind of dark and windy night, hearing Wang Bajian say this, I can't help but panic. The three of us hid behind the camels, and Wang Bajian cautiously poked his head out and looked at the dark sand wall. The sight almost scared him half to death, and I asked him what he saw, and he stammered, "What's it...... Pass...... It's coming!"
My heart was pounding, and I looked out through the gap in the middle of the hump, and I saw a few shadows staggering towards us from among the remnants.
I gasped, there were six shadows. Their shadows are a bit weird, and every step is difficult. My first reaction was that these things were not human, and Bao Cai also looked at the things coming towards us at this time, he shuddered and turned around, leaned his back against the camel, and said nervously: "There won't be ghosts or anything like that in this ruin, right?"
I lowered my head and comforted him, "Don't scare yourself, these things have shadows, they can't be ghosts!"
"What's that? Walking in such a strange way, like a zombie, as if it wasn't controlled by your own brain. "Treasure Road.
I took a deep breath and said, "Hell knows!" and poked my head out again. However, just as I was looking ahead, a face was staring at me strangely through several camels.
I was so frightened that my hairs stood on end.
What is this? I swallowed my saliva, and before I could see clearly, a white light flickered in front of me, and I heard only the sound of sharp objects inserting into the flesh! My heart tightened, and the camel screamed bitterly, and the warm blood splattered out instantly.
At this moment, all the resting camels felt the crisis, became agitated, and fled in all directions. The camel that had been attacked tried to stand up, but it screamed bitterly, and could not stand up, as if something was dragging it. At this moment, I reacted, it was injured! Those shadows were people! Some of them were lying on the ground, desperately dragging the camel's legs, and the other were holding Western Regions knives, stabbing the injured camel's body one by one.
This camel is "auspicious"! My head was buzzing, my emotions were out of control, my breathing became short, I took out my Mongolian knife in anger, and was about to fight hard, Wang Bajian and Baocai grabbed me and said: "Son, I can't save it, these people's mental condition is a little wrong, let's go quickly!"
I shook my head, Jixiang looked at me, muffled screams, under the moonlight, in its big eyes, crystal tears fell!
In the misty eyes, I saw Ji Xiang fall to the ground weakly, and the group of people cruelly cut off a piece of flesh from its body, and it was ...... He stuffed it into his mouth hungry. And under the darkness, Ji Xiang looked at me with a dying breath, and pale steam erupted from its mouth and nose.
I went forward weakly, and fell into the desert several times, wailing and crying! If it weren't for their appearance, we would have died long ago!
Not long after we left the ruins of the earthen fort, two shadows burst out again, and they ran forward, their swords still stained with auspicious blood.
I looked in the direction they were running, and there was a camel running forward in a panic. Afraid that they would be hurt again, I tried my best to catch up, and at this moment I didn't care if I could deal with these vicious people, and the only thought in my mind was to save them.
Wang Bajian is also a temperamental, he and Baocai took out a short knife, and shouted excitedly: "Wang Ba Lamb, you can't beat a group, and you're afraid of two, fight with them!"
I hurriedly said: "Bajian, your footsteps are better than ours, you go to chase the camel, we will deal with these two people!"
Wang Bajian nodded, and Baocai and I rushed over and pounced on the two of them, and all of a sudden, several people scuffled in one place.
In the past, Bao Cai and I were the weakest two in the team, and now we are, but after the trip to the Chu Tomb, the two of us are not what they used to be, and we have restrained the two wicked people at once.
The two men begged for mercy with both hands, and when they looked closely, their faces were full of beards, and the sand had congealed into small pieces in the middle of these beards, and their bare skin was completely cracked, and the wounds were stiff, as if the soil had not shriveled out after years of rain. They begged bitterly, saying that after entering this sea of sand, they encountered a sandstorm, and they had been trapped here for a long time, but they had not found water or food, and when they saw camels just now, they were moved to kill.
One of them asked, "Have you ever heard of a sand ghost?"
When I heard the word "sand ghost", I was shocked and hurriedly asked him what he meant.
He told us that before they went into the desert, they had heard that there were evil winds and evil spirits here, and that they were specially haunted by people who were in the desert. They thought they wouldn't be so unlucky because they had more people, so they came. As a result, they encountered the same sandstorm as us, the camels ran away, and three of the people in the group died.
Those who survived were disoriented, and as they walked, they reached the earthen fort. I had planned to leave the next day when the wind and sand were light. However, the truth is that no matter how they go, they can't do without this place. They remembered the old legend, and realized that it was the evil spirit in the sand who wanted to leave them here, so they stayed in despair in the ruins of the earthen fort, and after ten days, the water and food were all used up, and they thought of waiting for death in the earthen fort, but they heard the movement of someone coming, so they became ill-willed. The man said, assuring that there was absolutely no intention of killing.
I looked at Bao Cai and I face each other, and although what they did made sense, the thought of Ji Xiang looking at me helplessly made my heart throb and my hands clenched into fists. Just as I was about to fight, I saw that the two people lying on the ground suddenly showed a sly smile, and their eyes emitted a faint red light, I faintly felt that something was wrong, only to see that my body was shrouded in a few dark shadows, and before I could react, my head was hit by some blunt object, and I fainted. (To be continued.) )