Chapter 80: Soil
Du Ruo gasped and said, "She is so old now, she can't hold her clothes, what if she breaks and splashes on us?" Then we won't be able to live. ”
"But we don't have any other way......
Sanxiu sighed, walked to the feet of Mrs. Zhang's corpse, grabbed the two trouser legs, and said, "Sweet Peach, Brother Amu is unsteady on his feet, or you come to help me hold Mrs. Zhang's collar." ”
Du Ruo let out a heavy "sigh", rubbed his hands, and squatted next to the corpse's head. The two men nodded and picked up the body together.
With a sudden undulation, the corpse fluid inside the corpse began to wander from side to side, making a sparse noise.
Du Ruo felt sick.
Suddenly, Du Ruo's collar made a cracking sound.
The two of them suddenly turned pale, and hurriedly rushed towards the edge of the cliff in small steps. The mouth was getting bigger and bigger, and I saw that the big water balloon was about to fall to the ground and shatter. When the two of them were still a few steps away from the edge of the cliff, they used their hands together to finally throw Mrs. Zhang's body off the cliff with all their might.
"Oh, it's dangerous......" Du Ruo wiped the sweat from his head.
After a while, a slight muffled sound could be heard from the bottom of the cliff in the distance. Then, the fire actually began to die from the bottom of the cliff and extended to the edge of the horizon.
A stone staircase appears on the cliff face not far away, leading to the bottom of the cliff.
"This second level, even if you have passed?" Du Ruo couldn't believe his eyes.
Du Heng smiled slightly and said, "It seems that we should also thank Mrs. Zhang, if she hadn't sent herself to the door, how would we have been able to extinguish this fire?" ”
The three of them slowly walked down the steps on the cliff wall, and they didn't know how long they walked, but they felt that the more they walked, the hotter it became. Du Heng walked between Du Ruo and Sanxiu on crutches, his legs were weak, and he almost fell down several times, but he was carried by Du Ruo who hit the head.
Finally, six feet stepped on the flat ground.
In front of him was an endless desert, without a trace of wind, without a single grass, and there was nothing but yellow sand in sight. The sun appeared overhead at some point, and the strong sunlight shone on the sand, shaking several people almost unable to open their eyes.
"What the hell is the weather in this place? Why is the sun coming out again? Du Ruo scolded angrily.
Du Heng shook his head and continued to walk forward on crutches.
The three of them staggered through the vast desert, leaving behind three rows of overlapping footprints. The sun has never set since it came out, so that there is no night in the desert, let alone a cool time. The three of them couldn't walk anymore, so the one with better physical strength stood as a shield, and the remaining two sat in the figure to temporarily hide from the sun.
Since there was no day and night, Du Heng couldn't estimate how long it had been, and he even felt that he had been gone for more than half a year. The food and water in the gluttonous bag have finally bottomed out under various frugal circumstances. After you and I ate the last apple together, the three of them still couldn't see the end of the desert.
The sun is always like a huge furnace, shining overhead. At first, the three of them were sweating profusely, but after many days without water to enter, not even a drop of sweat could come out.
Du Ruo stepped on the hot sand and felt the soles of his shoes smoking. She looked back at Du Heng and Sanxiu, who were supporting each other, licked her chapped lips, and said, "Just go on like this, when will it be a head......
Sanxiu squinted his eyes to look at the sun overhead, and said weakly: "How long have we been walking......"
Du Ruo said: "There is not even a dark sky in this ghost place, who knows how long we have been gone, I think there is a year ......"
Sanxiu twitched the corners of his mouth and said, "I think it's been two years......"
Du Ruo said to Du Heng again: "Hey! Are you sure you don't have anything to eat in that pocket? ”
Du Heng pinched the empty gluttonous bag and said, "There are only Longtang and Duqi here, which one do you want to eat?" ”
Du Ruo sighed, raised his head to look at the cloudless sky, and said, "Alas, if only that kid in Yuyang was still alive, maybe with his dog nose, he could still find something in this desert." However, I don't know if Longtang has this ability......"
"You give me the gluttonous bag, are there apples in it and you haven't found it......" Du Ruo stretched out his hand for a long time, but didn't see Du Heng's reaction, and said impatiently, "Hey, I'll talk to you!" ”
Sanxiu turned his head to look at Du Heng and found that his eyes were closed, his forehead was leaning on crutches, and his face was yellower than the desert.
Suddenly, Du Heng's feet went weak and collapsed like a mountain.
"Brother Amu!"
Du Ruo then shifted his gaze back from the sky, and when he saw Du Heng falling, he was startled, and hurriedly knelt down beside Du Heng and said, "Hey! Du Heng! What happened to you? You can't fall, it's all over if you fall, get up! ”
Sanxiu tried his best to mix Du Heng, but Du Heng waved his hand weakly and said, "I...... I can't really walk......"
"! What does it mean to not be able to walk! Du Ruo scolded, "People can still walk as a mortal, you are an immortal!" Why can't you walk? Stand up and go! ”
Du Heng swallowed with great effort and said, "Although I am an immortal fetus, I am also a broken immortal fetus. Ah Ruo, it's not that my brother is spineless, it's that I really can't walk......"
With difficulty, he untied the gluttonous bag from his waist and stuffed it into Du Ruo's hand, and said, "You take three divine soldiers and go to Shui Yangbo, and the great cause of the Du family's rejuvenation will be handed over to you......"
Du Ruo threw the gluttonous bag on Du Heng's body, and said angrily: "Don't leave it to me!" I don't know what a revival is! If you give me these things, I'll sell them when I get back. Anyway, I'm just a woman, and the ancestors of the Du family will only come to you for trouble! ”
Du Heng smiled slightly, looked at Du Ruo dotingly, and then untied the soul bottle around his neck, wanting to hand it to Du Ruo.
Seeing this, Du Ruo hurriedly grabbed Du Heng's hand and said, "Du Heng! Don't you want to give me the little flower too! She's your wife, not mine! I said, why are you so irresponsible? Why do you want to push me for everything? If Xiao Yuhua lives and finds out that you are not there, she is afraid that she will kill me together! Are you so patient?! ”
Du Heng was powerless to resist Du Ruo's hand, and said with a smile: "I also want to be responsible, but I'm really useless, you two must get out of ......"
"Hey! Du Heng! Du Heng!! ”
Du Heng slowly closed his eyes, and the seemingly nonexistent force in his hand finally loosened.
"Brother Amu!!"
Sanxiu let out a cry of pain, and the sand and gravel around him seemed to shake. She grabbed Du Heng's clothes and pulled desperately, as if she wanted to wake Du Heng up, but Du Heng kept her eyes closed and ignored Sanxiu's crying.
Du Ruo fell to the side in shock, and said in despair: "Du Heng...... He's dead? ”
"You can't die! Brother Amu, you can't die!! ”
Sanxiu beat Du Heng's chest frantically, tears dripping down his cheeks in the sand and crutches, and evaporated in an instant. Du Ruo looked at Du Heng, who was stiff, speechless for a long time, and had no intention of wondering where Sanxiu came from to shed tears.
Suddenly, Du Ruo found that the crutches under Sanxiu seemed to have sprouted.
As more tears fell on the crutches, the buds grew more and more, and then new branches were pulled out, new leaves grew, and finally a few small yellow flowers the size of pearls bloomed in the leaves, which turned out to be a laurel tree!
"Sanxiu! You see! ”
Sanxiu stopped crying, and she looked down in the direction of Du Ruo's finger, and she was also stunned.
I saw that the branches and leaves on the crutches shone in the sun, and the small beige flowers exuded a rich fragrance. Suddenly, a little light flickered faintly in the stamens of the flower, and then in an instant it spread out towards the whole crutch. The crutch was wrapped in fluorescent, and it gradually floated off the ground and floated in front of Sanxiu's eyes.
Du Ruo shouted: "The divine soldier recognizes the master!" ”
"What?" Sanxiu obviously didn't understand what Du Ruo meant.
Du Ruo turned over and climbed forward two steps, pointing to the cane and shouting, "Quick! Grab it! ”
Sanxiu didn't know why, so he had to do it. As soon as she grasped the crutches, suddenly the blue, yellow, and red colored filaments of light swirled around her arm, enveloping the whole person. Sanxiu stood up in some panic, but he felt that his body was getting lighter and lighter, and the feeling of hunger, thirst, exhaustion, and heaviness was swept away in a blink of an eye.
The light filament gradually closed, and Sanxiu was as radiant as before.
Du Ruo pursed the corners of his lips, tried his best to squeeze out a smile, and said, "I didn't expect you to recognize a divine soldier in this kind of place, and I don't know if you should say that you are lucky or not......
Sanxiu looked at the crutches in his hand and muttered, "Divine soldier? Is it a divine soldier like Yaohua...... However, Brother Amu is dead, and we are trapped in this desert again, so what's the use of having an extra divine soldier......"
She sighed, let go of her hand, and clubbed her cane on the ground.
However, at the moment when the tip of the rod touched the ground, a small grass suddenly emerged from the ground. Then, like spring returning to the earth, a piece of green radiated from the tip of the stick, and a large oasis with delicious herbs suddenly appeared in the vast desert. A clear spring is bubbling and rippling.
Sanxiu was dumbfounded.
"This ...... Is this what I did......"
Du Ruo opened his mouth, not knowing how to answer. She suddenly turned around and saw Du Heng's stiff body, and said tremblingly: "Spring breeze...... The spring breeze blows and grows again...... The spring breeze blows and grows again......"
She ran to Du Heng's side with a rolling belt, picked Du Heng up horizontally and ran towards Qingquan. I don't know if he was physically exhausted or tripped by grass and vines, and before he could run to the spring, Du Ruo suddenly fell forward, plopped, and threw Du Heng in his arms into the spring.
The two men stood by the spring, staring straight at the ripples in the middle of the spring. Du Ruo squinted his eyes at the edge of the spring and saw that the water level seemed to be slowly declining at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Hearing the sound of water, Du Heng suddenly came out of the water and laughed heartily: "Happy! Joyfully! ”
"Brother Amu! I knew you weren't going to die! ”
"Haha, Du Heng, you bastard! You're finally alive! ”
Du Ruo and Sanxiu danced on the shore, and Du Heng laughed heartily in the spring water. The fragrant wind gusts in the oasis, and from time to time a yellow butterfly flies by and lands among the wildflowers.
The three of them drank enough water and sat down by the spring to rest. Du Heng fiddled with the budding crutch, and after listening to the narration of the two, he said with a straight face: "The divine soldier only waits for one master in his life, as long as the person he is waiting for does not come, it will not be awakened, and it will stay in that inconspicuous state forever." It seems that Sanxiu's trip is really destined. ”
Du Ruo smiled: "I cut it down when I saw it die, but I didn't expect it to hit it crookedly and pick up a treasure!" ”
Sanxiu took the crutches from Du Heng's hand, gently stroked the bark that was soaked in blood, and said, "Divine soldier...... I didn't expect that I would also have a divine weapon, so what should I call it? ”
Du Heng thought for a while and said, "Since this crutch used to be a laurel tree, let's call it 'Gui Yi'." ”
Du Heng felt that his physical condition was better than before, and he didn't need crutches anymore, so Gui Yi handed it over to Sanxiu directly for safekeeping. The three of them rested well, and then walked forward again.
The oasis is long and the trees are quite lush, but it leaves a path in the middle that can accommodate three people in parallel, and it looks like it is guiding the way.
After walking for a long time, Du Heng found that a white flower and shiny burr appeared on the horizon. When they got closer, the three of them were shocked, it turned out that this dazzling raw edge was actually another endless field. It's just that the surface of this land is densely packed with millions of sharp blades!
Just after the sea of fire, and into the Sword Mountain, this mountain of heavy yin, is it the legendary eighteen-layer hell?