Gu Lajie asked how Lin Xiaofan escaped from the Forest of Death It turned out that Lin Xiaofan, Liang Min and Zhang Long, after coming out, they returned to the original tower to look for them, but they disappeared, thinking that they would definitely come to them, but they happened to run into Wang Shao and others. Because Liang Min's and Lightning were not in good health, Lin Xiaofan left Zhang Long to take care of them, and she herself followed the group of tomb robbers all the way into the Evil Spirit King Palace. In terms of time, it is the front and back feet, just in time for Yunu and others to pick out the Mani gem from the mural. She said that the jade slave entered the Spirit Dragon Dungeon at any cost to steal the evil spirit bead, it should not be because there was a buyer who paid a lot of money. Gulajie said: "I think so too, how much money is worth her life, I'd rather jump into the abyss than hand over the evil spirit, then what is her purpose?"

Lin Xiaofan said: "Before, I also thought that the jade slave was just trying to steal the evil chlorine spirit bead of the Spirit Dragon Country, but at this time, it seems that her purpose is more than that. ”

Gu Lajie thought for a while and said to Lin Xiaofan: "It is difficult to ask the truth from this mouth, even if she says it, we can't believe her lightly." But if we want to get out, we have to take her with us. ”

Lin Xiaofan nodded in agreement, the water and food that everyone carried were limited, and they did their best to get out of this vast quicksand.

Gu Lajie went over and dragged the jade slave up, let her walk in front, and the group walked against the wind.

Walking all the way forward, the sea of sand under the abyss is boundless, and the soft fine sand makes people sink step by step, and the march is extremely difficult. The people walked with dry mouths, and within half a day, they had already drunk all the water in the marching kettle.

Gu Lajie couldn't support it anymore, and fell to the ground, Lin Xiaofan and Black Demon Tian persuaded him for a long time. He still won't go. Lin Xiaofan asked Yunu to stop first, turned his head and asked her, "How is the situation of the fat man?"

Lin Xiaofan said: "He's just fat and a little weak." Now he's pretending to be dead again, and he's taking care of him. Let's go first, you see if he can keep up with us. ”

The Black Devil said, "How do you know he's playing dead?"

Yunu said: "According to this grandson's usual appearance, we have reason to believe that he is playing dead. ”

Miss Lin said: "I see that he has signs of dehydration, I'm afraid he really can't walk." ”

When Yunu looked at Gulajie, he was thirsty enough, but he hadn't reached the point of dehydration, so he couldn't throw him down after all, so he said, "Otherwise, you work hard."

The black devil said: "No, it's me who carries the black cauldron." It's me again. Why don't you ever care about me, am I popping out of the cracks in the rocks, I don't need the sun and rain?"

Lin Xiaofan: "Isn't there no way, and it's not just you alone, let's drag one leg and drag him away." ”

So the two of them dragged Gu Lajie and followed the jade slave forward. Not long after walking, the jade slave also fell headlong, and for some reason, this sea of sand seemed to cause people to quickly dehydrate. Lin Xiaofan's throat was also on fire and smoking, burning thirst. I can't find any words to describe it.

Lin Xiaofan had no choice but to let the Black Demon Sky drag the big gold tooth alone, and he dragged the jade slave in front of him, dragging one by one, ready to continue moving forward. Miss Lin Fan said to the Black Devil: "Insist on persevering." Maybe a few more steps further and you'll find the exit. ”

The Black Devil Sky shone forward with a wolf-eye flashlight and pulled out a backpack from under the quicksand. Lin Xiaofan thought to herself: "Is there anyone who has been here before us" But when she walked over and looked at the backpack, she was desperate. Previously, when they were sorting out their gear, they threw away an extra backpack. It was Lin Xiaofan who pulled out of the quicksand, it turned out that they had made a big circle in this huge whirlpool-like air flow and returned to the origin of the departure

Lin Xiaofan asked the Black Devil: "The backpack is buried by the wind and sand, how can you still find it?"

The Black Devil said, "I remember there was a rock here. With that, he pointed to the side with a wolf's eye flashlight, and sure enough, there was a square rock, half-buried in the sand. He saw that he had walked for a long time and then came back, and it had become a deflated ball. The crowd had no choice but to sit next to the rock. The fat man shook the marching kettle vigorously, unscrewed the lid, raised his neck, and tried to control the last drop of water, but the water in the marching kettle had already been drunk, he did not give up, and licked the spout of the kettle with his tongue, and complained: "I am thirsty to death, you just give me camel urine at this time, and I can drink it."

Lin Xiaofan said: "If you don't say a few words, the more you talk, the more thirsty you become." ”

The fat man said, "But it's strange, I'm dying of thirst, and I feel that my throat is full of sand, but I don't delay speaking." ”

Not only the fat man, but Lin Xiaofan and the rest of the people also felt the same way, this place is really a hell. Lin Xiaofan pondered, judging from the pictures in the map of the Linglong Kingdom, His Royal Highness the Demon King should be the River of Death, but there is no water below it, perhaps the ancients used it to describe this huge quicksand vortex, except for the boundless quicksand, there is only death here

Anyway, this place is a strange place, it almost kills people with thirst, but the lips are not chapped, and no one is dehydrated. Gu Lajie couldn't figure it out for a while, so he had to go to find out the tone of the jade slave. The jade slave said: "I am desperate, you ruthless and unrighteous turn your face and deny people, and you want to take away my evil spirit beads." I just wanted to die, and you don't want to get what I can't get, so I jumped down, and how could I know what this place was."

Gu Lajie knew that she must have something to hide, and wondered if she should give her some means, at this time, Lin Xiaofan called him over. Lin Xiaofan said: "Look at this rock in the quicksand, it is so smooth, it is obviously not weathered. ”

I saw that the side of the rock was about 15 meters long, and the bottom was buried with quicksand, although the wind erosion was severe, it still looked very smooth. Gu Lajie picked up the sand on both sides and dug down, trying to see the complete shape of the rock, but he couldn't see it for a long time.

Thinking that the sarcophagus had been dug out of the quicksand, the Black Demon came over with a sapper shovel to help. The two of them held back their thirst, and dug down again, tired and sweaty, exhaling and panting, the bottom of Fang Yan was still so neat, but they dug very deep and didn't reach the end.

Lin Xiaofan said: "Don't dig it, I'm afraid that you won't be able to dig it for a day." ”

The fat man said, "This is not a sarcophagus, you see what it is."

Gulajie said: "It's not enough to dig so deep. And it was neat and tidy, like a pillar of rock. ”

Lin Xiaofan turned on the wolf's eye flashlight and looked at it carefully. I can't think of anything else, it's a big pillar of rock. It's just amazingly thick, digging for a long time, digging out a rock pillar from the sea of sand

The fat man threw down his shovel in frustration, sat down and gasped for breath, already choking with thirst and having worked in vain, so he had to lie down and rest for a while.

Yunu said: "This posture of yours is very special, either lying or sitting. What are you doing on your stomach?"

Gulager said: "You still have the face to ask, I took a whip from you on the ass and pulled off a piece of meat." How do you let Lao Tzu sit?"

Yunu said, "Yes, don't you care, let me see," and she said that she was going to come over and pick up his pants.

Gulajie made her break out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly said: "Go, go, what kind of system"

Turning his head to look at Lin Xiaofan, Lin Xiaofan was still next to the rock pillar in the quicksand, looking down and thinking, but he didn't notice the situation on their side.

He figured he didn't want to stay in this place, it would be just a pillar of rock if he dug any further. You have to leave this place while you can still walk.

"The quicksand in this place is swirling with the wind, and the compass is out of order, so I can't recognize it," he said. It's better to lie down and wait for death than to walk. ”

Gu Lajie thought to himself: "In the past, I was trapped in a cave in the hinterland of the mountain, but I never cared, and I also did the business of digging graves in the mountains. Drilling earth kilns is commonplace, and touching the golden captain can explore eighteen holes in the mountain. You can enter and exit any kind of cave, but the abyss of the secret curse Demon King is too big. There is no edge, no edge. His feet were full of quicksand, and the beam of the wolf's eye flashlight could shine at most twenty or thirty meters, although he had the skill of finding dragons, he could not do anything. At the moment, he said to Lin Xiaofan: "We must first solve the problem of positioning at present, if we don't identify the direction, then we will be tired to death, and we will also be spinning in place." After saying that, he called the Black Demon Heaven to come over and discuss it together. All three agreed that the direction of the wind was the only guide. The three of them were supposed to cross the whirlpool from the side, first out of the swirling quicksand of the terrain before paying attention to it.

Black Devil Tian used to work in the northeast and went to the Mongolian steppe, where herdsmen often dipped their fingers in saliva and held them up to their heads to judge the direction of the wind, and the side of the finger that felt cool was the direction of the wind. Lin Xiaofan and the fat man also learned this trick, so the three of them pointed to the sky and walked in the direction of the crosswind.

Yunu is still half-dead, but after a long time, she also found that although she was so thirsty that she could not bear it, she could still walk and speak, so we didn't need to drag him like a dead dog.

Everyone walked for a long time, and the fat man in front suddenly stopped, he said: "Sister, come and take a look" and then pointed the beam of the wolf's eye flashlight in his hand forward, shining on a flat boulder in the quicksand, the bottom of the boulder was buried by quicksand, and the top was more than a meter high.

The other three were also taken aback when they saw it, and they said that there would be no mistake in the direction they were walking, but how could they return to the rock pillar

Yunu said: "Fat brother, maybe there are many such rock pillars in this sea of sand, and it is impossible for us to go around again." If that's the case, if it's not for nothing for half a day, you might as well crash me with one shot, I really can't walk. Today, one day I have walked the road of my life. ”

The fat man said, "You think I'm willing to take a detour, but this is the rock pillar from before." ”

Lin Xiaofan said to the fat man: "Are you mistaken, is this the rock pillar we dug up before, I remember that the two of us dug with a sapper shovel for a long time, but it is much deeper than this, and this rock pillar is only more than one meter high." ”

Lin Xiaofan said: "The wind will speed up the movement of quicksand, and the dug sand may be buried by quicksand again, you see the footprints behind us, aren't they all gone?"

The Black Devil said, "Then maybe it's the same as what Yu Nu said, there are other rock pillars in the sand sea, after all, there is no problem with the direction we are going." ”

The fat man said, "No, I know this pillar."

Lin Xiaofan said to the fat man: "You are now capable, you can even recognize the pillar, you greet it, can it promise you?"

The fat man said, "You call it lifting the bar, I see that there is a missing corner on the top of the rock pillar, and I can't be mistaken." ”

The three of them stepped forward to see that a corner was missing from the edge of the rock pillar, but not this one corner, and there were traces of wind erosion at all four corners. The fat man said that he didn't pay attention to the other three corners, anyway, he remembered that one of the horns was missing.

Lin Xiaofan said: "Let's not be tripped by a rock pillar, leave a mark, and then move forward." There seems to be a large area of ruins under the sea of sand. There won't be just one pillar, but if you encounter this marked pillar again. That's a hell of a ghost."

The fat man held the sapper shovel upside down and poked the tip of the shovel towards the rock pillar. "Pong" three times, leaving three crescent-shaped shovel marks.

The group hit the road again, braving the wind and sand to trek forward, and because it was so dark around them, they didn't know how far they had gone. Gu Lajie remembered the holy object of the ancestors of the mountain movers for generations, and it was recorded in the history books: This bead, with a diameter of two feet, shines for thousands of miles. Although it may not actually shine for thousands of miles, it is within a few hundred meters. Bright as the moon, that's not an exaggeration. And the bright moon bead was shattered by him in the secret curse demon palace, and it was just a spiritual energy gem the size of a hand, and the brilliance was constricted, and there was no longer a light as bright as the bright moon.

Gu Lajie asked Lin Xiaofan: "Can the light of the evil spirit bead be restored, if there is a Mani gem illumination, they will have a lot of chances to get out of this vast sea of sand." ”

Lin Xiaofan said: "She collected this knowledge and misuse long before she came, and the Zagrama clan of the Spirit Dragon Kingdom took the evil spirit gem as a holy object and worshiped it for generations. Legend. There is the light of Yuli in the evil spirit bead, which can illuminate a qiē ignorant crowd and extinguish a qiē ignorant darkness. And this gem in the Bright Moon Pearl is actually the most mysterious piece of Mani gemstones. Can absorb a qiē light. Due to the structure in the gemstone, it is infinitely curved and refracted once light is ingested into the gemstone. Just stay in it forever. The mountain movers have been passed down from generation to generation, and it is only said that the evil spirit beads must not fall into the hands of the left side door. Otherwise, there will be a catastrophe, but he didn't say how to release the light in the evil spirit bead. ”

Gu Lajie asked Lin Xiaofan again: "This spirit bead can illuminate a group of ignorant people." Extinguish the darkness of ignorance, how can you say this?"

Lin Xiaofan said: "This spirit bead has been lost from the hands of the mountain movers for nearly a thousand years, and many secrets have not been passed down, so I don't know very well. ”

While they were talking, they saw a pillar of rock in front of them, half-buried in the quicksand. "It's strange, it's just another rock pillar, or if we've been spinning around all the time," said Gula Jiexin.

Yunu said: "This should be another rock pillar, the previous one is more than a meter high, and the part of this rock pillar above the quicksand is less than half a meter. ”

Gu Lajie looked at the top of the rock pillar, there were traces of wind erosion at the four corners, and the quicksand was not fixed, so it was impossible to confirm whether it was the same rock pillar based on the position of the rock pillar on the top of the quicksand.

The black devil was anxious to find on the rock pillar: "The fat master left three deep shovel marks on the previous rock pillar, if there are marks on this rock pillar, then we have been detouring in place, and the rock pillar can't run over by its own legs." ”

As soon as the three of them heard this, they all came to look for it, but the part of the rock pillar above the quicksand was only half a meter, and if there was a mark, it was also buried under the quicksand. They sapped through the quicksand and dug down until they were exhausted, but when they saw this rock pillar, a chill surged on everyone's backs

The Black Demon Sky and the Fat Man dug down around the rock pillar, and although quicksand continued to fall, it was still not as fast as we did, and after digging for a while, they dug out a large sand hole. But looking at the rock pillar again, it was still as high as before, and as they kept digging down, the rock pillar was slowly sinking.

Everyone threw down the shovel and scratched their heads, they had seen strange things, but they had never seen such strange things, and it was impossible to say that they were not superstitious, but this rock pillar seemed to be deliberately not allowed to let them see the marks below, and they dug down as deep as it sank, and the part above the quicksand was still less than half a meter.

Digging like this, I was afraid that the black devil and the fat man would be tired to death, and I wouldn't be able to see the marks under the quicksand, Miss Lin felt that they were in a desperate situation. In a piece of directionless quicksand, the wolf's eye flashlight, which illuminates the farthest distance, can only shine twenty meters away, and the sand and dust are surging, even if there is enough lighting, you can't see the distance. The fat man had left a mark on a pillar of rock, whether there was a mark on the pillar in front of them or not, after confirming it, they could at least make a judgment on the current position, whether there were many pillars in the sea of sand or whether they had been circling in place or in any situation, and they had to confirm the current situation before they could come up with a countermeasure. But the quicksand and rocks in this place are working against them, and after walking for so long, they can't even locate themselves, which means that there is no chance of survival

At this time, everyone's thirst was almost at the limit, and no one could walk. Gullag leaned on the quicksand and licked his lips, realizing that his lips had cracked. If the previous thirst was just a psychological illusion, then dehydration is not far from this time. Gulajie felt that his consciousness was already in a trance, and the burning wound on his buttocks was also unconscious, and he thought to himself: "Even if there is no mark on this rock pillar, it is the third rock pillar they have encountered along the way, we will not be able to get out." ”

Lin Xiaofan came over and held his hand and said, "If it weren't for me to take back the spirit bead, you wouldn't have fallen into such a situation, do you blame me?"

Gu Lajie said: "What are you called, if you were me, you would do the same for me, anyway, there is only this one life, throw it somewhere, and it is not up to us to do it ourselves." Even if I die here today, I have not complained a word, and from the day I became your brother, I decided to give up this life to follow you, and that is right. As for the Black Devil, he is a man who dies for money, and a bird dies for food, so you don't have to pity him at all. ”

The black devil said on the side: "I don't want to listen to what you say, you kid is vinegar and salt, marrying a daughter-in-law and celebrating the New Year, I'm not still a driller, I have to carry the black pot for you every once in a while, why did you give up my life for me"

Gu Lajie said: "If you can still walk, you can walk out from here, I won't talk about you, the question is that you can't pull the bolt."

Yunu said, "I will never give you two to be a boy to be a burial boy."

Gulajie said: "You think you have won the heavens"

The fat man gritted his teeth and said: "There must be something under this rock pillar, Lao Tzu must dig it out" Holding the sapper shovel and digging on the quicksand for a while, digging deeper and deeper. Isn't it strange that the rock pillar is still more than half a meter high, and the fat man is digging down, and the rock pillar is sinking down.

Miss Lin watched the fat man digging on the quicksand, and the sand hole dug out was already above his head, and she still didn't see the marks on the rock pillars, not that he didn't dig deep enough, but that the rock pillars were slowly sinking.

Lin Xiaofan asked him to stop digging, but he ignored it and buried his head and dug hard. At this time, the half-dead jade slave opened his eyes, and when he saw that the fat man was digging quicksand, he was busy sand and said to me: "Fat brother, I am not dead yet, you can't bury me"

The Black Demon said: "Why did you cheat the corpse again, no one buried you." ”

Yunu said: "Isn't this all dug up? Both of you are sword-mouthed bodhisattvas, although you always say that I should die on the mountain to feed the wolves, and die under the mountain to feed the dogs, but at this point, don't you still want me to be buried in the ground, but I haven't kicked my legs yet, you can't bury me alive."

Miss Lin really didn't want to talk to her more, so I was indifferent to her begging.

At this time, I suddenly heard the fat man screaming from below.

The Dark Devil said, "What are you doing down there, you really dug something up?"

The fat man popped out of his head and said, "There is water under the quicksand."

As soon as they heard the word "water", everyone jumped up, and the beams of several wolf-eye flashlights shone down, only to see that the fat man had dug a big hole more than three meters deep in the sand hole, and the rock pillar was still more than half a meter high, but at the bottom of the sand hole, gushing out of the groundwater. Everyone is a dry mouth, the heart is burning, at this time to see the groundwater, it is really like walking in the scorching heat suddenly encountered a clear spring. Although the water in the quicksand is mixed with mud and sand, it looks very turbid, and if you are really thirsty for this kind of journey, there is nothing to care about.

The fat man took the water in his two hands and put it in his mouth, but his hands trembled with excitement, and before he could touch the water to his mouth, there was not much left. At this time, the big gold tooth plunged into the sand hole like a dog, and stuck out his tongue to lick the water underground. I thought to myself, "There is water under the quicksand, so this pillar keeps sinking." But can you drink this water Mu Us in Mongolian means necrotic water, there are some dark rivers and seas in the local area, but most of the seas are salty water, drinking it will kill people, but in our current situation, if we don't drink water, we only die, and it is possible to live after drinking water. ”

Just so distracted, the black Trojan horse Tian has already "cooed" and drank several sips, it can be seen that it is not salt water, otherwise he can't drink it in one gulp, the fat man dug down a few more shovels, and more groundwater gushed out, he used the marching kettle to fill it with water and threw it into the sand hole, I picked up the marching kettle, thought about it, handed it to Yunu, and said: "You drink first" (to be continued. )