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The conversation between Li Bai and the mysterious man in black ended faintly and was inconclusive. And Wentian believes in the ghost dance and relies on the ghost dance and the sun. So from beginning to end, I just listened, and didn't speak. Including after they said goodbye to the Ghost Dance Dragon Yin came out, Wentian didn't speak, but followed behind the Ghost Dance Liuyang silently, just like he followed the Ghost Uncle from the south wind to Middle-earth, and then to the dry desert.

"Go sharpen this dagger, and I'll send you to the desert at noon." Ghost Dance Liuyang handed Wentian a dagger, and then without saying anything else, he turned around and left.

After watching the back of the Ghost Dance Liuyang disappear, Wentian sat down next to the extinguished bonfire and began to sharpen the dagger. Because of this, there was the fact that Wentian deliberately took the tassel angrily, because Wentian didn't want the tassel to worry about him.

Like the wind in a desert morning, it comes quietly and goes gently. As it blew, the clouds were blown open and the sun rose. When the cool dissipates and the heat hits, noon, it also comes!

When Ghost Dance Liuyang came, he led two desert horses, and Ghost Dance Liuyang explained to Wentian that this desert horse was not ordinary, and it was more powerful than a camel. Camels can survive for about 14 days without water and more than a month without food, but they are twice as long as camels. For the desert people, camels are often used to carry things and objects, while desert horses are used to fight and travel thousands of miles in search of Haizi.

One of the most important differences is that a camel can be ridden by anyone, but a desert horse can only be ridden by the brave, because the desert horse is extremely strong and difficult to tame.

After asking God to know this, I felt that it was an honor to be able to ride a desert horse. Ghost Dance Liuyang didn't say much, and asked directly: "Do you know how to ride a horse?" ”

Wentian shook his head and said, "No!" ”

Ghost Dance Liuyang frowned, and said, "It's actually very simple, come, I'll teach you!" ”

With that, he helped Wentian onto the horse. Then without saying a word, just listening to the sound of "driving", Ghost Dance Liuyang slapped Moma's ass fiercely. The desert horse is in pain, and it runs forward like a fly, and the speed is as fast as wind and lightning. Frightened, Wen Tian's expression was distorted, he lay on the horse's back tightly and didn't dare to move, and screamed loudly: "Brother Liuyang, I hate you!" ”

At this time, Wen Tian knew that Ghost Dance Liuyang said to teach him to ride a horse, which turned out to be this kind of teaching. Fortunately, Ghost Dance Liuyang quickly caught up and said something like "don't be afraid, relax" and so on. After listening, Wentian finally learned to ride a horse slowly.

Although they fell a few times and ate a few bites of sand on the way, when it was dawn the next day, the two of them still reached the desert. Of course, Li Bai, the spectator of all the world, and the mysterious man in black also followed.

As far as the eye can see, there are rocks other than sand, and thousands of strange stones are built together, forming a stone forest with no end in sight. Under the light of the early morning sun, it is extraordinarily quiet, extremely mysterious and beautiful.

However, all seemingly beautiful things have an unknown dirty side hidden under their essence, and an unknown cruelty on the other side, the ghost uncle told Wentian. Therefore, although this place is beautiful, God knows that it must be extremely sinister.

When he came, Ghost Dance Liuyang also told Wentian that the desert is the closest place to the god of drought desert water in the dry desert, because there are countless wolves living in it, wolves that kill everything, and many strange beasts. So it looks beautiful, but it's like a wolf in sheep's clothing.

"Go ahead! I'll pick you up in a month! "Ghost Dance Liuyang doesn't talk to the sky like a mother-in-law, not even a word of advice and care. But his words were better than all, which moved Wentian's heart very much.

"What if I can't go back?" Wentian asked with a smile, he didn't feel scared, but just wanted to know how Ghost Dance Liuyang would answer.

"If you can't come back, then I will slowly turn you into a memory in my mind, and then forget about you as time passes!" Ghost Dance Liuyang also smiled, laughing very easily, and didn't seem to take the matter of surviving with the wolf to heart at all.

"Then I believe that Brother Liuyang, you definitely don't have this opportunity!" As soon as Wentian said this, the two of them looked at each other and laughed inexplicably, like confidants who had been reunited after a long absence, and laughed in understanding. After a while, I heard Tiandao again: "But Brother Liuyang, I have a question I want to ask you." ”

"You want to ask me why I keep saving you and helping you?" Ghost Dance Liuyang saw through Wentian's thoughts.

"Yes!" Wentian nodded.

"I've answered this question for you before, so my answer is still the same, as long as you survive, I'll tell you!"

"A word?"

"It's a deal!"

That's it, Ghost Dance Liuyang is gone. He didn't look back, because he knew he didn't need to, just like he knew that the cool autumn would go and the cold winter would come. After watching the back of the Ghost Dance Liuyang disappear into the golden sunlight, Wentian clenched the dagger in his hand and began to walk towards the stone forest.

Li Bai became curious about what was going to happen next to Wentian, so he asked the mysterious man in black, "What kind of bad things will happen to him here?" ”

The mysterious man in black asked, "Why don't you think on the bright side?" ”

Li Bai was stunned, and then asked again: "Can anything good happen here?" Ghost Dance Liuyang doesn't say, this stone forest is the territory of wolves, ask the sky to stay here for a month, how is this possible? ”

"It's really impossible." The mysterious man in black said, "But since this is already the case, he can only choose to face it." What's more, if there is no loss, how can there be gain? ”

Li Bai didn't understand the meaning of the mysterious man in black, and wanted to ask, but he knew that the mysterious man in black wouldn't say more, so he chose to look at Wentian. Then, seeing Wentian, he did not go too deep, but climbed to a relatively high rock to rest.

This big stone was different from the surrounding ones, it was very tall, several heads taller than Wentiandu. It is also very large, oval-shaped, like a smooth field on the top, and the surrounding area is also very smooth. When Li Bai saw it, he muttered: "What a strange stone!" ”

In addition, Oni Dance Liuyang gave Wentian water and food for three days, all of which were fruits and jerky. After he climbed up, he was not in a hurry, thinking about figuring out the surrounding environment first, after all, he was going to survive here for a month.

However, not long after he climbed the big rock to rest, he suddenly heard a cry of "whoosh", which was a wolf howl. He was startled, and only after looking around to make sure that there were no wolves were infested, did he settle down.

But after a while, suddenly another howl came, not a wolf howl. A strange roar of "Snoring Mu" is like a cow and a horse, a tiger, a lion and a leopard, and it is like a ...... other strange sounds; I can't tell what it is, but the roar is very loud and terrifying. Hearing the question in his ears, the whole person inexplicably felt a sense of oppression.

"What kind of beast roar is this?" Li Bai asked worriedly: "Why does it sound so scary?" ”

The mysterious man in black didn't answer, but said, "Don't you know if you look at it?" ”

Li Bai suddenly felt that the mysterious man in black was so annoying, but he had no choice but to read it as he said. Deng, seeing that Wen Tianzheng was puzzled and curious, but it was just that, he didn't seem to have any fear in his heart, not at all.

Li Bai thought it was not strange when he thought about it, after all, he had followed the ghost uncle from Middle-earth all these years, and he had seen thousands of strange beasts along the way, and he had heard thousands of strange beast calls. Therefore, although this strange roar of "snoring" is indeed a little scary, Wentian is not afraid, at least not now.

Throwing away distracting thoughts, lying on a big rock, looking at the sky, Wentian suddenly felt an unprecedented loneliness, and the time seemed to become very slow. He remembered the ghost uncle, remembered the tassels, and remembered the past. Thoughts, endless thoughts.

When Li Bai saw Wentian, he wanted to find something to deal with, but after leaving the ghost uncle and leaving the ghost dance and the flowing sun, a fear suddenly rose in his heart slowly, gradually, little by little. No matter how hard he tried to suppress it, this fear was like a weed, cut and born, born and cut, cut and regenerated, and there was no way to get rid of it.

In this regard, Wen Tian didn't know why he was afraid, and he had only left Ghost Dance Liuyang for less than three hours. But now, as the time flows away like water, the fear in Wen Tian's heart is increasing more and more. Especially at night, listening to those ghostly wolf howls, Wentian was so frightened that he curled up on the big rock, not daring to move. He tried to keep his ears from listening, but the more he did so, the more the wolf howled and made him panic.

Finally, Wentian collapsed!

"Uncle, where are you? I...... I'm afraid! ”

Everything is completely different from what Wen Tian thought before. His pride, his guts, all that he had, was now gone. It was swallowed up by the night, and there was not even a slag left to be eaten by the howl of the wolf.

As the night deepened, as more and more wolves howled, suddenly, Wentian found himself how vulnerable and insignificant. He just hid on the big rock, and endured endless cold, loneliness, and all kinds of torment for the night.

This is the first day of Wentian in the desert!

Li Bai was very distressed to see it, and he could understand the feelings of asking the sky here. Because of this night, the mysterious man in black wanted to wave his hand to cross the night, but Li Bai stopped him and spent the night with Wentian. Therefore, the loneliness and fear that Wentian felt, Li Bai also felt it. It is found that this is a pain that is more painful than death, as if the whole world is dead, and only oneself is alive. And the living creatures that are with them at the same time are not human beings.

It wasn't until the next day, when they saw the rising sun, that they gradually relaxed, and swept away all the unbearable things of the previous night. Wentian sat on the big rock, thinking about his embarrassment last night, and Wentian's heart became very complicated. He suddenly remembered what the ghost uncle had said to him, and what he had said to the ghost dance Liuyang: "Some things are useless, we shouldn't be like mice, just hide in the dark cave and survive." ”

In an instant, Wen Tian suddenly felt so ridiculous, as if he understood a lot of things in an instant, but he didn't seem to understand anything. Looking at the sun obscured by the clouds, Wen Tian felt a little confused, looking at the big stone under his feet, he heard in his ears what Ghost Dance Liuyang had said to him: "This is the cave you talked about, the cave that you scorned all day long." And you're the rat that survives. ”

This sentence lingered around Wentian's ear, repeated over and over again. It didn't take long for it to pierce Wentian's chest like ten thousand arrows piercing his heart, turning his confusion into a kind of torment that made him unbearable, and then into a roar of torment until his muscles jumped. Finally, kneeling on the big rock, angrily facing the sky, shouted out!

"I'm not a stolen rat, no! Even if I die, I will die outside the cave! Igniting the raging fire in his heart, Wentian grabbed the dagger given to him by Ghost Dance Liuyang, and jumped off the big stone with a bang. After taking another deep breath, he puffed up his chest and prepared to walk deeper into the stone forest.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he took a step, he heard a sound of "呑呑" from behind. Frightened, he immediately looked back and found that it was a very large black-skinned mouse, chewing on the dried meat and fruit skin that he had spit on the ground yesterday. ate with relish, didn't take Wentian seriously at all, and even looked up at Wentian intentionally or unintentionally, as if it was a provocation, and was so angry that he was angry when he asked Tiandeng.

"Stinky mouse, I didn't expect even you to laugh at me! Hum! ”

Wentian raised his foot and was about to kick it, but the black-skinned mouse knew that he was going to be beaten, so he turned around and wanted to run. But at this time, a red-scaled blood python that was about the thickness of a waist rod suddenly came out, and with a rubbing, it opened its bloody mouth and bit the black-skinned mouse. After only a few breaths, he saw the black-skinned mouse die after struggling a few times.

Immediately afterwards, before Wen Tian came back to his senses, the red-scaled blood python took a bite and spit out the black-skinned mouse the size of a rabbit directly into its stomach, without spitting out a single hair. Frightened, Wentian's legs trembled and wanted to run, but his legs were already weak, and he didn't obey the call at all.

And at this moment, the red-scaled blood python slowly raised its head to make an attack posture while spitting out the letter, and swam around to look at the sky. I don't seem to know what kind of living thing Wentian is, and I'm curious if I can eat it. After all, the red-scaled blood python has lived in the desert for many years, and has never seen many people, so naturally it does not know that there is still a mortal species in the world.

Also because of the red-scaled blood python's behavior of wanting to eat or not, wanting to bite or not, Wentian was so frightened that his soul flew away, and his mind was completely blank. He finally realized what it was like to be afraid, what it was to be afraid, what it was like to hang on the edge of a cliff and dangle back and forth. After an instant, the red-scaled blood python suddenly opened its bloody mouth and bit down violently towards Wentian......