My brother is dead!

Baili Xuance sat on the galloping desert flying boat, racing wildly on the desert in the clouds in the night, even in the cold wind of the desert in the clouds, he still couldn't extinguish the sadness and anger in his heart.

In the moonlight, behind him, the Great Wall grew farther and farther away, more and more blurred.

My brother Baili Shou is dead!

He couldn't believe his ears when he heard the news, but the messenger brought the relics of the Hundred Miles Covenant, showing him that his brother was only afraid that he would really die!

Xuan Ce's chest rose and fell violently, and the two brothers had a bad fate, when they were young, they slaughtered the village by sand thieves, and he and his brother kept the covenant and scattered. This parting is more than ten years.

For more than ten years, he wandered in the desert in the clouds, crawling and rolling in the desert, how many times he almost died, and finally met the teacher. Under the tutelage of his teacher, he became an excellent hunter, hunting sand pirates and wanted criminals in the clouds.

Over the years, he has traveled around the desert in the clouds, not to earn more bounties, but to find his brother.

It wasn't until not long ago that Xuan Ce received a job to arrest Mulan and went to capture Mulan, but was defeated by her and became her prisoner and had to follow her to the Great Wall, so he reunited with his brother to keep the promise.

It's just that I didn't expect this reunion to be so short!

My brother left the Great Wall not long before he kept the covenant and entered the desert in the clouds, is this going to be goodbye?

"My brother will never die! How could he die, someone so smart and careful? Xuan Ce let out a beastly roar in his throat.

The desert boat suddenly picked up speed, making the cold night even cooler.

It wasn't until the moon rose that Baili Xuance calmed down, and the speed of the desert flying boat slowed down slightly, and the desert boat at night is a dangerous thing, easy to freeze, not to mention, easy to lose its way, and even more terrifying is the predator that haunts at night.

He left the Great Wall rashly and said goodbye to the guards without saying goodbye, which was indeed a mess.

"My teachers often told me to be calm and think twice before I act. The news that my brother died in the desert was just brought to me by a stranger, and it may not be true. ”

The desert flying boat gradually slowed down, and Xuan Ce found a dead old tree, took the flying boat down, and removed the black jade that was steaming at the core of the flying boat.

His desert flying boat is a modified black crystal sand flying boat, called the flying fish. In front of the boat is a fish head, a spindle-shaped impact shield, and on both sides are streamlined hulls, like the body of a fish.

The front end is covered with the two outer wings of the desert scarab beetle, and when the outer wings are opened, there is the storage compartment and the core of the flying boat.

There are two seats in front of the fish's tail, and in front of it is the driver's seat of Xuan Ce, and the pedals under his feet are like shark fins. In the back is the prisoner position, basically only one butt can be put down, and it is very uncomfortable to sit.

Now he was no longer a hunter, and the prisoner's place was filled with food and water.

Black crystal sand is a kind of mineral deposit in the clouds, which repels the yellow sand of the desert in the clouds and can float in the air, so people use black crystal sand to build keels, so that the sand boat can float in the air for two or three feet. Caravans tend to place sails on large merchant ships and use the wind to move the caravanserais, which are not very fast.

In order to facilitate the robbery, the sand thieves in the clouds removed the sails that depended on the sky for food, modified the core of the flying boat, and used black jade to urge the turbines under the ship to spray air backwards, so that the speed of the flying fish boat was greatly increased.

Xuan Ce's Flying Fish Boat was snatched from the sand thieves, and after his modification, it was faster.

Xuan Ce used a flying sickle to cut off some dead branches, and lit a fire, and the flames dispelled the cold in the desert.

He sat down against the tree and opened his brother's belongings, and the messenger sent a simple package, which contained a three-inch piece of broken jade and a notebook in addition to his brother's clothes.

Xuan Ce unfolded his clothes, which were stained with blood, and there were open holes in his chest and back, as if he had been pierced through the chest and back of his heart by a sharp sword.

Xuan Ce frowned, stretched out his finger and gestured at the hole in his clothes: "The wound in the back of the heart is longer, and the wound in the front chest is narrow, indicating that the sharp weapon is pierced from the back of the heart and out of the front chest." Plotting against my brother from behind...... My brother has always hid in the grass and put a cold gun, and he has a powerful and omniscient perception of the battlefield, no one can touch his back, let alone plot against him at such a close distance......"

He remembered Baili's ability to keep the promise, and shook his head: "Except for me, he will never let people come so close!" No one can kill him from behind! ”

Xuan Ce settled down, put down his clothes, and examined the broken jade.

I saw that the broken jade showed a charming sea blue, and when touched, there was a cool feeling that would drill down the skin into the bones, and crawl to the heart little by little.

Xuan Ce hurriedly put down this piece of broken jade, roasted his hands on the flame, and was shocked.

"The jade in the clouds is often produced in the jade city, where there are veins. But I've seen a few pieces of jade, but none of them are as weird as this one. What kind of jade is this? ”

He picked up his brother's notebook again, turned the first page, and immediately jumped up and picked up the letter that his brother had written to him from the small box of the Flying Fish Boat.

The letter was written by his brother after they were reunited. At that time, his brother asked him to join the Great Wall Guards, and he joined, but he didn't expect the Great Wall Guards to be so boring, and he was not allowed to do this, and he was not allowed to do that. He was accustomed to being at ease in the desert in the clouds, and when he was in a hurry, he was furious and prepared to leave the Great Wall and return to the desert.

The elder brother kept the promise so he wrote such a letter to persuade him to stay, although he sneered at his brother's actions, but he cherished the letter very much, and solemnly collected it.

Xuan Ce unfolded the letter and checked the handwriting on the note by the light of the fire.

Suddenly, the big beast ears on his sideburns flickered, his shoulders shook slightly, and two flying sickles flew out with chains that were more than a foot long, sneering twice, one left and one right inserted in the desert.

Xuan Ce continued to check the handwriting on his notes, but there was a sound in the desert, and a group of sand crabs were attracted by the firelight and emerged from under the desert.

They are desert scavengers, with lapis husks the size of millstones, and giant crows, like giant crabs, yet they live in the desert in the clouds.

They filter the lapis gold from the sand, eat it, and grow a hard lapis husk on their backs. With this shell to forage for food, it will not be easily killed by other beasts in the desert.

However, these dangerous creatures did not approach, but stopped outside the zhang, and their small eyes looked at the firelight, not daring to approach.

The scythe in front of them glowed with a cyan glow, and its entire body was made of lapis gold, and the handle was inlaid with a broken jade the size of a fingernail.

These two flying sickles are made of the lapis on the back of the sand crab!

The two flying scythes are disproportionate to the size of Xuan Ce's body, and it will take hundreds of sand crabs to create these two blades!

"The handwriting is correct, it's my brother's!"

After Xuan Ce finished the comparison, he carefully put away the letter and began to read the contents of the notes.

"Sixteenth, fine. Astrolabe Oasis.

"The sand bandits in the astrolabe oasis are so annoying, but the sea buckthorn flowers here are a wonderful ingredient, and my brother loves to eat them. Blanch a handful of sea buckthorn flowers, remove them and dip them in cold water. Stir to remove the juices, chop and season with salt or sugar...... My brother should still like candy as much as he did when he was a kid, right? ”

Xuan Ce cut off, a little disdainful: "Sugar? Men in the desert have always eaten salt and sand like drinking water, and children eat sugar! ”

He wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and continued to read, the next paragraph of the note was still the way to eat sea buckthorn flowers, which were used to scrambled eggs and cold tofu.

Xuan Ce didn't find much useful information, but he was a little hungry.

At the end of this page, Shou Yue mentions that he followed the caravan to the Astrolabe Oasis and settled down, and met the leader of the sand bandits in the gold shop, Sha Tuo, who was entrenched here.

He turned the second page, but found no follow-up.

The real second page was torn off by someone, the next page is still how to cook, and there are bits and pieces of seemingly inconsequential information.

"The torn page should record the purpose of my brother following the caravan into the astrolabe oasis, but why was it torn up? Did my brother tear it up, or did someone else tear it up? ”

Xuan Ce raised his head and looked at the starry sky in the desert, "Tomorrow morning, go to the astrolabe oasis to check it out." I wonder if Sha Tuo is still there? ”

On the second day, before the morning star had risen, Xuan Ce had already gotten up, planted the black jade in the core of the Flying Fish Boat, and started the Flying Fish Boat to roar away, leaving a long dust belt behind him.

When the sun rose, he came to the outside of the oasis of the astrolabe.

The Flying Fish Boat stopped on a high hill, and Xuan Ce stood straight on the Flying Fish Boat and looked at the astrolabe oasis.

The Astrolabe Oasis is a collective name for a nearby oasis, and the Starlight River is an underground dark river where the surface is exposed, intermittently, and every place where the surface is exposed is an oasis.

At night, when you stand on a high place, you can see that the water source of the oasis is reflected in the starlight, so it is called a astrolabe.

There are a lot of fish and dragons here, although there are also traders, but there are also often sand thieves. Merchants and sand pirates often live in different oases, and they do not invade each other, and even do business with sand pirates.

But without the Oasis of the Astrolabe, the Sand Pirates and the Merchants are undying rivals.

There are also some locals in the oasis, sometimes they are engaged in the business of merchants, and sometimes they also act as sand thieves, and they will also collect the things stolen by the sand thieves and sell the stolen goods for the sand thieves, which is very unprincipled.

"My brother mentioned in his notes that he met a leader of the sand thieves named Sha Tuo in the gold shop, and maybe the purpose of his trip was related to Sha Tuo."

Xuan Ce condescendingly observed the astrolabe oasis, only to see that most of the oases were very deserted, and there were no merchant ships of the caravans, and only one oasis could see the unique sand boats of the sand pirates. Most of the sand boats have been modified and are much faster than merchant ships.

"Shatuo should be there."

Xuan Ce jumped into the Flying Fish Boat and headed for the oasis.

There was not a little wind in the morning air, which made him a little uneasy, and it was the monsoon season in the desert in the clouds, and it was a time of great wind at this time of the year, so it was called the business break.

At this time, the merchant is very dangerous.

"It's just that there is no wind at all today, which is a little abnormal." Xuan Ce looked at the sky in the distance, where it was yellow, orange and orange, confirming his guess.

This is a sign that a sandstorm is coming.

The Flying Fish Boat approached the oasis unhurriedly, and from a distance, I saw that there were multiple horse-resisting piles placed around the oasis, which were full of metal wires, which were very strong.

This is a weapon used to protect against sandstorms, in which there are often sandweeds that can be blocked by horse rejection stakes, and metal wires are used to conduct electricity and guide lightning strikes in sandstorms.

The Flying Fish Boat slowed down and sailed into the oasis, and the breeze blew, stirring Xuan Ce's furry ears.

"The wind is blowing." Xuan Ce said in his heart.

His ears were five or six centimeters above his head, and his hairs were so long and thin that he could easily sense subtle fluctuations in the air.

Although the sun was just rising, it was already a little hot, and the vision was a little distorted.

"A half-blood demon imp......" A smoky voice came from the side of the oasis road, like a burning old smoking gun.

Xuan Ce was still sitting firmly on the Flying Fish Boat, and with the corner of his eyes, he saw a middle-aged man with a pipe in his mouth and a tanned face coming out of the house, looking at him with some surprise with open arms.

The Flying Fish Boat moved forward unhurriedly, and in the center of the oasis there were many sand boats docked next to a wine shop, and these sand boats had already removed the black jade from the core and only floated off the ground.

On both sides of the street, more aborigines came out, both men and women, looking curiously at Xuan Ce, a half-blood demon boy.

Xuan Ce has long been surprised, when he followed his teacher to be a hunter in the desert in the clouds, he had long been accustomed to people's strange eyes. He and his brother Baili kept the covenant and were indeed not pure-blooded humans, but a hybrid of demons and humans.

Although it was early in the morning, there was already a commotion in the wine shop ahead, and a group of sand thieves were staggering in the wine shop.

Under the gaze of the people, Xuan Ce went to the porridge shop opposite the wine shop, stopped his flying fish boat, walked into the porridge shop, and observed the situation in the wine shop.

Xuan Ce chose a seat by the window, ordered a cold sea buckthorn flower, half a catty of meat buns and a bowl of porridge, and told the shopkeeper to make the sea buckthorn flower sweet. The shopkeeper looked at him with a strange expression, and then went to prepare.

He looked around, and the people in the desert in the clouds obviously did not like to drink porridge in the morning, but liked to drink, so there was only one guest in the porridge shop besides him.

The guest covered his mouth and nose with a white scarf, his body was very clean and fresh, and judging by his exposed skin, he was not a native of the astrolabe oasis. The local's skin is rough and dry, with a black-red tinge, while his skin is very white.

He was not very old, and he noticed Xuan Ce's gaze, so he nodded with a smile.

Although he covered his mouth and nose, the smile in his eyes was very infectious, and Xuan Ce couldn't help but nod lightly.

Not long after, the meal was delivered, and Xuan Ce took the lead in tasting the sea buckthorn flowers, and his face suddenly became bitter: "This is what I liked to eat when I was a child?" ”

Sea buckthorn flowers have a very strong aroma, and with the addition of sugar, the taste is even more difficult to swallow.

"My brother always treated me like a child, but I've grown up a long time ago!"

He picked up a bun, looked at the wine shop opposite, and observed carefully: "There are twenty-three sand thieves in the wine shop, which one is the leader Sha Tuo?" ”

Seeing that many sand thieves were toasting to one of the men with a white turban, Xuan Ce's eyes lit up, and he silently thought in his heart: "It seems that the white turban is Shatuo." But he has so many comrades, how can he capture Sha Tuo and force him to tell the purpose and movement of his brother here? ”

He couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and the tall and thin figure and resolute face of the teacher appeared in front of him again.

The teacher always told him to plan before he acted.

The teacher always closes his eyes and concentrates before acting, thinking very seriously about his every move, responding to every possibility, and even calculating the consequences of his every action.

That's why this young teacher is invincible!

"The teacher is always very melancholy."

Xuan Ce tried to put on a melancholy demeanor, closed his eyes, and thought about how he could successfully capture Sha Tuo among the twenty-three bandits who licked blood with their blades.

The more he thought about it, the more upset he became, and suddenly picked up the porridge, raised his head and snorted and drank it all, then put the bun in his arms, put the porridge money on the table, turned over and jumped out of the porridge shop, and took two mouthfuls of flying sickles from his flying fish boat.

He walked towards the liquor store opposite, strapping Flyer's chain ring around his wrist. The two lapis fused together resembled cyan butterflies.

"My plan is to ...... Improvise! ”

He shook his shoulders, his chains rattled, and he stepped into the liquor shop and walked straight to the man with the white turban.

The wine shop suddenly fell silent, and a pair of eyes fell on Xuan Ce's body.

Some of the sand thieves immediately went to grab their weapons under the table, while others stood up.

"Little ghost, this is not the place for you!" A tower-like burly man stood up, half a body taller than Xuan Ce, and reached out to grab Xuan Ce's shoulder.

At this moment, Xuan Ce's body sank suddenly, his shoulders trembled, and in an instant, an unimaginable force erupted from his body, and the ground of the entire wine shop shook!

His shoulders drove the two flying sickles to dance, and the burly man immediately withdrew his hand and retreated, reaching out to grab the big knife behind him, but saw Xuan Ce flying out with a flying sickle, and tied up the white turban man with a bang!

Suddenly, there was the sound of Canglanglang's weapons unsheathed in the wine shop, and one by one the sand thieves jumped up and waved their weapons.

Between the flashing figure and the swinging blade, Xuan Ce's figure flashed like a ghost, avoiding one sand thief after another, and passing under their blades dangerously!

A sharp sword even swept through his hair, and a few strands of hair fell down.

The sand thieves who jumped up could only see an afterimage slip in front of their eyes, and when the afterimage disappeared, they saw Xuan Ce appear in front of the white-turbaned man.

The white-turbaned man sat on the chair with a frightened pop, his eyes full of panic, and he was trampled on his chest by Xuan Ce.

Stunt, instant scythe!

Xuan Ce has practiced with his teacher for many years, and has realized his own stunts from the teacher's body, his Fei Lian chain flies out, locking the prey, and the Fei Lian chain is like a traction line, along this traction line, his speed can reach a level that the naked eye can't catch!

Xuan Ce raised his left hand Fei Lian, pressed it against the throat of the man in white, and shouted, "Stop!" Whoever dares to step forward, I will kill him!" ”

One by one, the sand thieves who rushed towards him with weapons in hand hurriedly paused and shouted: "Don't kill him, if you have something to say!" ”

Xuan Ce Feilian was still pressed on the neck of the white-turbaned man, murderous: "Shatuo, I'm not here to hunt you, but to ask you about a person, and keep the promise for a hundred miles." He should have been here five days ago. ”

The white-turbaned man's face was pale, trembling and speechless.

At this time, a voice came from behind Xuan Ce: "Hundred miles to keep the contract? He had been here five days earlier, and there had been a caravan from overseas. However, Baili Shoujo and the caravan left quickly, and according to the route of the caravan, they should be heading to Jade City. To get to the Jade City, you have to take the Xiaoloulan route. It's monsoon season, and they should settle down in Xiaoloulan. ”

Xuan Ce followed the sound and saw a big man with an open arms sitting in the corner of the wine shop, his face blocked by shadows.

The big man was tall, wearing shabby ascetic clothes, with a bare head and a ring scar on the top of his head, and said unhurriedly: "In addition, hunter Xuan Ce, I will tell you one more thing. ”

His face slowly emerged from the shadows, revealing a resolute face, a scar in the corner of his left eye, and a grin, revealing a mouth full of tobacco-blackened rotten teeth: "You caught the wrong person." The person you arrested is the merchant boy we kidnapped. I'm Shatuo! ”

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