The white dragon was full of meat, and Li Tong lifted the headless wolf corpse, and a bowl of wolf blood dripped out. The two of them ate meat and took turns drinking blood in a bowl, and in the boundless night, there was only the fire on the top of the white dragon.

The wolves sat down the slope, and the atmosphere in Bailong Beach was terrifyingly quiet.

"What are they waiting for?" Li Tong looked at the wolves under the slope and asked while wiping the blade of the sword.

"Waiting for ......," said Mobod, gazing at the firelight, falling into memory, "when I was twelve years old, I went hunting with my father in the mountains. I got lost that day and came across a tiger. I ran up a tree, and the tiger couldn't climb the tree, so he stayed under it, and as it is now, they waited, waiting for us to be afraid. ”

"Are you afraid?" Li Tong asked.

Mobod shook his head and said bitterly, "I don't dare to be afraid. ”

"Well, why didn't your father come to your rescue?" Li Tong asked a little strangely.

Mobod was stunned for a moment, and was silent for a long time before he said, "I...... Father, he had many sons, and my mother was a Han slave girl who was taken captive...... I waited a long time and he didn't come. ”

"Oh, how did you escape?" Li Tong asked.

Mobod retorted: "How can I escape? Unless you don't go back to the tribe anymore and become a lonely ghost on the grassland. If you want to go back to the tribe, you have to work hard. Either fight with the tiger or be eaten by the tiger. ”

"You can run away from anything." Li Tong sighed.

"It's useless...... My mother was a slave! I was born with no way back. If you can't kill the tiger, the tribe won't raise waste......" Mobod said in a low voice.

The fire coals crackled, and the four fields were windy.

In silence, Mobode took out an object from his arms, a bit like a flute, whimpered and blew a few times, and said leisurely, "Fortunately, I brought a crossbow that day, I shot this tiger, and the tiger bone made this flute, listen, in this flute, there is always a breath of death." ”

"Old Mo, you killed a tiger at the age of twelve?"

"Hmm", Mobode agreed, drank a large mouthful of wolf blood, looked at Bailongtan in the night, and choked up: "I remember that year, the grassland suffered a rare white plague, and many cattle and sheep froze to death, so the chief had to reduce his mouth. Because I hunted a tiger and hoped to be a useful warrior for the tribe, I survived, but when I returned to the tent, my mother was gone...... The tribes on the grassland are like this, once the tribe suffers a disaster, the first to give up is the women and children, the old and the weak, not to mention that my mother is a slave. ”

"Festival mourning......" Li Tong didn't know how to persuade him, so he could only be silent.

The wind was blowing and the campfire was swaying.

"Something is wrong, the wolves are too quiet, there is something weird in the back. Brother Li, you guard the front, I'll go to the back and have a look! ”

With that, Mobold glanced at the frighteningly quiet wolves at the bottom of the slope, reached out and took a burning branch from the fire, and walked back to the slope. As soon as Mobod walked away, the old wolf on the top of the opposite sand dune let out a low roar, and the wolves below the slope immediately stood up, and under the leadership of the big green wolf, slowly approached the top of the slope.

Li Tong pulled out the Han sword and waited behind the first rejection horse. At this moment, there was a roar and slashing sound from the cliff behind the slope, and at the same time, there was a terrible howl of the wolf before he died, Li Tong realized that the wolves were about to launch a general attack, and the sword in his hand was tightened, and he began to guard with full attention.

As expected, the big green wolf led more than thirty gray wolves to attack along the ramp in a group, Li Tong brandished the Han sword and guarded the first rejection of the horse desperately resisted, he was surprised to find that the wolves had learned a lesson, knew the power of the sword, when attacking, they were virtual and real, covering each other, and very flexibly avoiding Li Tong's sword blade, one hit missed, and immediately escaped, obviously consuming Li Tong's physical strength. Li Tongxin secretly scolded: These wolves are all special, and they will be tired to death if they continue to be tired like this.

I don't know how long it has been, Li Tong tried his best to hack and slash four or five wolves, taking care of this and losing the other, Li Tong's physical strength decreased quickly, plus the pain in the chest injury, the sword swinging action was slower than at the beginning, and he was almost bitten by wolves several times. The wolves significantly increased the frequency of their attacks, and each group of gray wolves that rushed ahead missed a single blow, avoiding the blade of the sword, rolling down the steep slope next to it, and then lining up at the back of the line to attack the top of the slope again. And the old wolf also went down to the opposite sand dune, standing at the bottom of the slope and directing more gray wolves to participate in the attack, which was simply a classic wheel battle.

Just when Li Tong could barely hold on, Mo Bode took care of the three wolves that climbed up the back cliff and rushed over in time. Instead of immediately coming to his aid, he picked up a flaming branch from the campfire, used the fire to force back the wolves who were attacking the top of the slope, and then stuck the head of a wolf he had just chopped off on a thick stake, facing the wolf on the ramp not far away. Seeing this, the old wolf got up, and Mobod's scimitar was pointed at the old wolf. The old wolf wandered, whining and whining, his eyes glowing ghostly green.

"Brother Li, light the fire."

Li Tong easily gasped, he took the torch, came to the first row of horses and squatted down to light the fire. Soon, the dry poplar wood crackled and burned.

In the strange night, the wolf did not retreat, and continued to wander on the bloodstained sand in front of them, a low growl in its throat. The flames of the first row of poplars were getting higher and higher, and Li Tong and Mo Bode retreated behind the second row of poplars. The wolf's head grew scorched in the flames, and white smoke came out. The old wolf looked at the flames and was momentarily distracted. The fire is getting bigger and bigger, and it is no longer possible to see the people behind the flames. The eyeballs of the two wolf heads on the stake have been burned through, and the fire comes out of the hole in the eye, and with a snap, the spine with a wolf head in it burns off, and the wolf head falls to the ground. The scene was miserable, the wolves were silent, but in the silence there was a fierce roar.

As the first row of flames faded, Mobold picked up a burning poplar tree, and after the two of them retreated to the second row of poplars, they lit a second wall of fire...... When the fourth wall of fire was lit, it was at least two hours before dawn, and the last remaining wall of fire would not wait for dawn anyway. Mo Bode said helplessly: "Brother Li, it seems that these firewood will not be able to withstand the dawn." If we want to get out of trouble, we must kill the wolf, otherwise we can't stop it, and we will have to take a risk later. ”

Li Tong also knew that the situation was critical, he looked at the position of the wolf below, turned his head and asked, "Say, what do you have in mind?" ”

Mobod didn't answer, the fire in the fourth row of poplar horses was weakened, and after the two of them retreated to the last row of poplar horses, Mobod lit the last wall of fire. The people on the steep slope retreated and the two retreated to the top of the white dragon pile. Mobord untied his horse, but without removing the blindfold from the horse's head, he turned over and stepped onto the horse.

"What do you want to do? Don't be brutal! Li Ditto stepped forward and grabbed the reins. Mo Bode showed his snow-white teeth and said firmly: "Brother Li, my war horse has fought wolves and dared to charge at the wolves. I owe you my life, and I'll charge for a while, luring the wolves away, and buying you time to retreat. Let's go! ”

Li Tong grabbed the reins of the horse tightly and said angrily: "No! Don't be stupid......" Before the words fell, Mobode suddenly raised the scimitar in his hand and slashed at him, Li Tong instinctively rolled on the spot, and before he could get up. Mobod slapped the horse's buttocks, the horse was frightened, he clamped his legs on the horse's belly, galloped down the steep slope, and roared, "Brother Li, live", and the horse spread its iron hooves, jumped high over the wall of fire, and rushed towards the wolf. Li Tong's tears suddenly welled up, and he didn't want to think about it, he turned over his war horse, slapped the horse's buttocks, and rushed out over the wall of fire with a loud roar, chasing after Mobode's back.

The wolves waited for the opportunity through the last row of fire, but they didn't want a horse to leap out of the fire, the horse's eyes were blindfolded, and the wolf could not be seen, so they spread their iron hooves and swooped down by the steep slope, and the war horse slammed into several wolves blocking the slope, the wolf on the left rolled down the steep slope, and the big bad wolf on the right jumped up and pounced on Mobod. Mobod stabbed the wolf in the belly, slashed diagonally, and a pile of hot intestines rolled out, and the wolf fell to the ground. The big green wolf took the opportunity to bite Mobod's calf and tore off a piece of meat deeply, Mobod ignored it, slashed left and left at the wolves that surrounded him, and saw the old wolf rushing over.

Li Tong happened to rush out at this moment, taking advantage of this gap, breaking through the encirclement of the wolves, but overtaking Mobode, Li Tong did not escape, his war horse still did not stop, and suddenly rushed to the old wolf, the iron hooves stepped on the old wolf, the old wolf on the slope did not have time to dodge, was trampled by the bowl-sized iron hooves and broke his front legs, screaming and rolling downhill.

Li Tong urged the horse to go downhill, the old wolf fled north with one leg lame, Li Tong caught up, and mercilessly rode the horse back and forth on the old wolf. Under the bowl-sized iron hooves, the old wolf huddled on the ground broke his tendons and his internal organs were broken. The moonlight was bleak, the sand was flying, and in a moment the old wolf turned into a silent pile of flesh and blood, and lay on the ground with his dying breath.

Li Tong dismounted and stood in front of the old wolf, the old wolf looked at Li Tong, two lines of tears flowed down, its whole body was trampled by the horse, only the tail could move, the old wolf wagged its tail and begged for mercy, Li Siyi sword stabbed down from the wolf's head, the sword passed through the wolf's skull, pierced out of the throat, and the head wolf whimpered.

Li Tong carried the dead wolf and turned over on his horse, turned the horse's head and rushed towards Mobode, who was besieged by the wolves, and Mobode's horse had fallen to the ground and let out a mournful roar. And Mobold was already covered in blood, wielding a scimitar to fend off the wolves. Li Tong roared and rode his horse forward, he threw the corpse of the head wolf into the wolf pack with all his might, and then rushed in and slashed desperately......

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The third day of dawn. Li Tong untied the bandage on Mobode's leg, the wound from the wolf's bite had turned black and festered, the pus was stinking, and the leg was swollen. He touched Mobard's forehead, which was hot. Mobode fell asleep, Li Tong stared at him for a while, licked his chapped lips, sighed, gently untied the spare water bladder he was carrying, checked the amount of the water bladder, poured a little water and fed it to Mobode, then covered the lid, put the water bladder on his back, gritted his teeth and continued to hurry.

When the scorching sun fell, Li Tong was stinky, the soles of his feet were festering with blood, and his mouth was full of wolf blood. Mobard's face was as dirty as a ghost, his lips were all cracked, his hair was knotted in a heap, and his ears were full of sand. The only warhorse foamed at the mouth and emitted a dying sour stench. In the desert where no grass grows, three dirty lives are thrown into the west, from the White Gobi into a desert.

It was noon on the journey, and it took less than twenty miles for three hours, and after stepping up to a sand dune, the horse fell to his knees with a weak knee. Mobod rolled off his horse and collapsed on the blazing sand. Li Tong looked at his legs, his knees were blackened down, and the person fell into a coma. Li Tong was also exhausted and sat on the top of the sand dunes, looking at the endless desert, with layers of sand dune ridges, quicksand like a tide in the windward part of the sand slope, and winding like a wave in the leeward part. The red sun shifted to the west, burning the four fields with a roar, the hot wind swept through, and the canopy was melted and flowed like water.

"Water...... Water ......"

The unconscious Mobode made a dreaming sound, Li Tong shook the water bladder, the water was already pitiful, opened the cork, and took a sip himself. Then with a cross heart, he fed the remaining mouthful of water to Mobod, and if you want to die, die! Anyway, it's not bad. Between heaven and earth, the three lives continued to move westward step by step. Stop-and-go, four hours to the west, about thirty miles. Mobold woke up and fainted, his face backwards on his horse, and he passed out again.

The unitary hour is approaching, the scorching sun is westward, and there is not a trace of coolness around. Li Tong's chest was tight and flustered, and he only felt that he couldn't hold it anymore. With a "plop", the front hooves of the war horse were already kneeling on the ground, and Mobod also rolled to the ground. The war horse screamed, and it finally lost its will to live, and fell sideways on the sand. The three lives closed their eyes before and after, the sky and the earth were chaotic, and no one was silent.

I don't know how long it has been, Li Tongyou woke up slowly, he propped up his body, looked at the person and horse lying behind him, and wanted to cry, but there were no tears. Gritting his teeth and standing up, Li Tong walked to the horse and knelt down, covered the horse's eyes with his left hand, and slowly pulled out his sword.

"I'm sorry! Old man, I really can't help it, I don't want to die yet. ”

Li Tong said to his war horse with tears in his eyes, but his hands trembled so much that he couldn't do it for a long time. The blade of the sword glistened coldly in the sunlight, and the warhorse breathed rapidly.

After a long time, Li Tong finally mustered up the courage, and went down with a sword, the horse suddenly shook his head, Li Tong failed to cut the horse's throat at once, the blade of the sword wiped out the blood on the horse's neck, and a stream of hot horse blood splashed on Li Tong's face. The horse raised its head violently in pain, shook off Li Si's hand covering its eyes, and looked at Li Tong with wide eyes covered in blood. Li Tong hurriedly grabbed the reins of the horse, but the horse shook his head violently to avoid it, struggling to stand up, half of his body was covered with yellow sand and blood was dripping from his neck. The horse was frightened and frightened, and when he returned to the light, he ran away from Li Tong and farther and farther away, until he disappeared behind a sand dune in the distance.

The wind rose, and Li Tongshang ran breathlessly, and the wind swept the gravel, and in a moment wiped out the hoof prints on the ground. Li Tong stumbled and chased after the fainter and fainter hoof prints, until the wind and sand were blind, and there was no trace on the ground. Li Tong looked around in a panic, the sand dunes around him were silent, and the war horse was gone, leaving him standing in the vast wind and sand, with a sadness in his heart.

Towards noon, Li Tong dragged Mobode across the sandplain, and every step he took was so difficult. Mobode was awake at this time, and in a trance, he looked at the two long sand marks dragged out of his heels, turned his head to look at the back of Li Tong, who was struggling to drag him forward, and two lines of tears slid down his cheeks. Suddenly, the two men noticed the carcass of a wild camel not far ahead.

"Go to the camel!" Mobod shouted in a hoarse voice.

Walking to the camel, a foul smell came to my face. Wild camels have been dead for a long time, their carcasses are swollen, and their flesh is rotten.

Li Tong frowned and said, "Old Mo, this meat can't be eaten." ”

"No meat!" Mobard's voice was even hoarse, and he said anxiously, "Camels have three stomachs, and there may be water in the rumen. ”

Li Tong covered his nose and walked up to the bulging belly of the dead camel and stabbed it. A corpse smell erupted from the punctured wound, and Li Tong covered his nose and quickly took a step back. At Mobod's urging, Li Tong knelt in front of the dead camel, endured the stench, grabbed a part of the outer skin, stabbed his sword under the skin, cut open the camel's belly, and turned out the rumen in a pile of internal organs.

Li Tong stretched out his hand to untie the fight on his waist, and pierced the rumen of the dead camel with a sword. A stream of clear water flowed out of the rumen, which had turned purple, and half a bowl of water was stored. Li Tong took a big sip and couldn't help but want to vomit, but he covered his mouth and swallowed it back. He handed Diao to Mobard. Mobold took it, holding his breath and taking a sip to dry. After drinking the water stored in the rumen of the dead camel, the two of them ate some dry food, and although they were nauseous, their spirits were much better.

After Li Tong regained some strength, he continued to drag Mobode on his journey, step by step over the sand dunes and through the sand valley. Suddenly, a river appeared in the distance. The river was sparkling, the two of them were stunned for a moment, cheered in unison, climbed down the sand slope with a rolling belt, and staggered towards the river......

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An eerie blue light enveloped the whole world, I floated in the air, and my house became smaller and smaller......

"What the hell is going on?" I was completely confused and couldn't help but shout.

"Everything is normal, Li Tong." At this point, I believed that I was in a dream.

A tall figure stood in front of me and looked at me, "she" was wearing a spacesuit and a completely transparent helmet, smiling kindly.

"No, Li Tong, you didn't dream." She answered the confusion in my head.

"It's a dream," I responded, "because it's always like that in dreams...... Eventually, you'll find yourself falling out of bed and hitting a bag on your head! ”

She smiled, with a doting look on her face, like looking at her own child.

"It's a dream for sure!" I stood by my point and said, "It's like those ridiculous dreams." And, even if it's not a dream, what are you doing in my yard? ”

"We're not in your yard, we're above it."

"Ahh It's a dream, I'm going to pinch myself and let you see I'm right," I said and pinched myself, "Ouch! ”

She smiled again: "Now you are satisfied, Li Tong?" "She stood in front of me, her smiling face showing intelligence, and her whole body exuding kindness and kindness. With her, I had a very reassuring and calm feeling. Never in my life have I ever met anyone who has made me feel so reassured.

"Who are you? Where are you taking me? Let me go! I struggled to ask.

"My name is Wa, but first I want you to know that from now on, none of this is a dream," she said. Indeed, this is an unusual thing. For some reason, you have been chosen to make a trip that few people on earth have ever done so, especially not in recent times. ”

"Why me?" I shouted hysterically, "This is not the life I want, send me back." ”

"Be brave! My child, this is your mission, and you will be helped. She said.

Then the blue glow turned milky white, and her shadow blurred.

I reached out and grabbed it, tears welling up and begging, "Don't go!" Take me back. ”

As soon as he stepped into the air in his dream, Li Tong opened his eyes and woke up, feeling confused for a while. Every once in a while, this strange dream reappeared in his mind. Today is the seventh day since I was hit by a sandstorm. Li Tong sighed and sat up, checked the injury on his chest, and was surprised to find that the bruise was much better, and he could hardly notice it if he didn't pay attention. What happened to him was really weird, and it made him uneasy to think about it.

He looked at the lake beside him, the sky was blue, the stars were still bright, and under the sky before dawn, this small lake hidden in the depths of the desert was sparkling and glowing with the light of the moon. The small lake is in the shape of a rake, with the back of the rake in the west direction and the rake teeth facing east, so Li Tong named it the rake lake. Rake Lake is formed by the water gushing from a desert spring, the lake water is crystal clear, and schools of small blue fish swim in the lake.

Mobode was still asleep, snorting fast and slow, Li Tong walked over and touched his hot forehead. Yesterday the two of them threw themselves into the lake, drank enough water in one breath, and did not even have the strength to clean up themselves, so they fell asleep in the meadow by the lake, and slept for more than six hours. He checked the injury on Mobod's leg, and the big green wolf bit hard, and the whole piece of flesh the size of a palm was almost torn off, leaving only a small piece of tendon to be attached.

The wind swept the reeds, lemongrass and cattails. The waves of the lake crash on the shore, and the sand is soft. In the distant meadow, the exhausted horse was lying on its knees, its chin resting on the ground, and it fell asleep. Li Tong saw that the war horse was not sleeping standing up, and in the faint morning light, he got up and walked towards the horse.

The sound of footsteps made the warhorse's ears stand up and suddenly wake up, and it stood up vigilantly and looked at Li Tong who was walking towards it. After fleeing into the desert with an injury yesterday, the horse smelled the water hidden behind the dunes. There was a strange sound in the sand, and it ran out of the lake in fright, so that the two of them saw it, followed the trail to find the lake, and saved the lives of two people in the dark, maybe this is the will of God.

Li Tong looked at the sword wound on the horse's neck guiltily and slowly approached. The war horse retreated vigilantly, and Li Tong stopped. The horse hesitated to stand still, its front hooves restlessly scraping the ground, and Li Tong stepped forward, firmly grasping the horse's bridle and brushing the messy mane. The sky gradually rose, the man and the horse looked at each other quietly, and the war horse seemed to read the mind in Li Tong's eyes, slowly settled down, and lowered his head to gnaw on the grass.

At dawn, Li Tong had already made a basket of reeds to catch fish, and a small basket was sleeved at the entrance of the large basket. At this time, Mobode had woken up and sat up, and Li Tong put the fishing basket into the shallow water of Rake Lake.

"Can you catch it?" Mobod asked curiously.

Li Tong said with a smile: "Old Mo, you are better at killing wolves than me, but I am an expert in catching fish." Fish like to drill baskets, and if they get in, they can't get out. In the past, I could catch a basket of wild crucian carp in one night, and that stuff was very replenishing. ”

After setting up the fishing tools, Li Tong walked over and untied the bandages on Li's legs and looked at them. He pointed to a patch of grass on the shore and said, "Look, that's lemongrass, pounded into a paste to cure external injuries." He plucked a few more weeds and said, "This is Houttuynia cordata, wait a while to boil the soup, it can reduce fever and inflammation." Don't worry, with me as a miracle doctor, you'll get better soon. ”

(To be continued)