The desert is endless, and the yellow sand is everywhere. A slight wind rose, rolling up the yellow sand in the sky and covering the whole world.

The sun was scorching, as if you could touch it as soon as you stretched out your hand. It exudes a scorching temperature, which bakes the yellow sand with countless particles to an unusually hot temperature.

Tian Mao had been in the desert for three days, and listening to the leader of the caravan who walked into the desert with him, he would walk to the first city in the desert, Nansha City, in two days.

The caravan leader was a relatively honest middle-aged man, with rough skin peculiar to desert people, dull and enlarged pores. He speaks loudly and has a particularly good voice.

The leader's surname is Hasa, and the people in the caravan call him Hasa.

In addition to bringing some water and food to Tian Mao every day, Hasa also chatted with Tian Mao from time to time. At first, Tian Mao was a little cautious, but after he slowly matured, he let down his guard.

After chatting with Hasa, Tian Mao looked back at the road he had traveled from time to time.

There shouldn't be any pursuers, right?

After making sure that there was no figure in the rear, the hanging heart finally let go.

It's just that the heart that has just been hung down has not yet felt a trace of relaxation, and the sandstorm sweeping in the sky swept in.

The camels seemed to be accustomed to the climate of the desert, lying on all fours and leaning on the ground. Seeing this, Tian Mao hurriedly lay down in the hump, and at the same time wrapped his body tightly with clothes.

The sandstorm came and went as fast as it came, and it didn't last long.

The wind and sand left behind by the departing sandstorm buried twenty or thirty camels, including people, into small hills.

The camels in the small hill sensed the dust storm and got back to their feet, and Hasa began to count each camel one by one.

After counting until the last camel where Tian Mao was, he noticed that Tian Mao, who had experienced a sandstorm for the first time, was shaking the clothes on his body as much as he could, and he was not skilled in shaking off the sand that had been drilled into his clothes, and he seemed a little in a hurry.

He simply put the camel next to Tian Mao's camel.

"Little brother. It doesn't scare you. ”

Tian Mao tore off the masked linen cloth and spit the saliva mixed with dirt in his mouth on the ground, Hasa naturally handed the water bladder to Tian Mao who was leaning on the hump, Tian Mao also subconsciously received the water bladder, poured a sip of water, and cleaned the remaining soil in his mouth with a rumbling rumbling, and at the same time did not forget to stretch out his hand and answer the leader's initial question with a gesture of waving his hand.

"Don't vomit, swallow it. Hasa reminded Tian Maodao.

Tian Mao, who just wanted to spit out the water in his mouth, was reminded by this, and immediately understood the truth, and swallowed the water in his mouth.

"Little brother, don't be surprised, the water in the desert is too precious. You can't afford to waste it. ”

"It's all right, Brother Hasa, I didn't think of going to this aspect. ”

"Huh. If only you could understand. After that, I slowly got used to it. ”

"What? Are there a lot of sandstorms like this?"

"Not really. It's so much that it's not surprising. You will meet both ends in three days. ”

Tian Mao felt the harshness of the desert environment in his heart, and couldn't help but admire them very much for this kind of caravan that walked in the desert all year round.

"Then you're having a hard time. ”

"What's so hard about this, isn't it all about life. Some people in several cities are waiting for our goods to live, twice a year, although they can make a little money, more they feel a sense of mission and honor. I don't feel hard. ”

Hasa spoke, with a vague sense of pride, and then began to feel melancholy.

"It's getting harder and harder to do business right now. Since you were originally a Daxing army, you should know that Lumingzhou is not peaceful now, and the army is in chaos. There are several caravans that don't plan to come out this time. ”

"The more I don't think about it, the more I think about it. Tell me about you. How the hell did you get to Chishazhou?"

Usually Tian Mao and Ha Sa talk about some other topics, and they have never mentioned the question of why Tian Mao came to Chishazhou.

Now that he asked like this, Tian Mao didn't know where to start, and he was a little hesitant.

Hasa saw Tian Mao's hesitation, and he said, "What's so hard to say? What are you afraid of, since you are a person who comes to Chishazhou, which has no unspeakable hidden, there are a lot of people like you who have stories and can't help themselves. You don't want to think about it, you can stay well in Lumingzhou or other continents where there are abundant products, and have a good life, but who runs to the materially scarce Chishazhou for no reason. ”

Tian Mao smiled awkwardly, feeling that he had not escaped the eyes of this honest middle-aged man at all.

Tian Mao sighed and said, "I heard some secrets that should not be known in the army, and then I was hunted down. ”

Hazah nodded to show that he understood, this was really a person who had no choice but to ask the key to it.

"Oh, I see. ”

Seeing that Hasa nodded thoughtfully and did not continue to ask what kind of secret, Tian Mao expressed his gratitude. Although the incident about Liu Wei of Daxingguo is not a big secret now, no one can say what will happen in the future, Tian Mao does not want to implicate this middle-aged man who has a very good impression of him at present.

Since I heard Hasa say that there are so many people in Nansha City, there must be a group of dragons mixed together, and there are inevitably some people with unscrupulous intentions in it.

"Brother Hasa, you are not afraid that I am a bad person, and let me follow you in your caravan. ”

Hazaha laughed: "I don't have any other skills, I have traveled south and north for so many years, and I have seen too many people of all kinds, what kind of person you are, I can see at a glance." When I saw you for the first time, I knew that you were not a bad person, because the eyes of this thing do not deceive people, I knew it from your eyes. Of course, the little brother who was with you at the time was not a bad person. ”

Hasa patted Tian Shigeru on the shoulder and continued: "If there is a camel in my caravan that can carry people, I will also bring that friend of yours with me. But when I first saw him, I saw that he was not very willing to come with us to this poor Chisha Prefecture to suffer. ”

What Hasa said was naturally Zhou Heng who fled with Tian Mao, and Tian Mao also understood Zhou Heng's thoughts.

"He is indeed a good person, but he still wants to go to the various immortal mountains to try it, he prefers to one day be able to become a cultivator of the sword flight, besides, this friend of mine is most afraid of hardship, I heard you say that Chishazhou looks like this, he will definitely not come." ”

"Young man, it's always good to endure a little hardship, how easy is it for the immortals on the mountain to do it. What about you? Why would you want to come here?"

Tian Mao's idea was very simple, he said: "I just want to endure hardship, my health is too poor." And if the two are together, if they are found by the hunt, they will be easily served in one pot. ”

Hasa raised his finger at Tian Mao.

"Come on, young man. ”

Tian Mao smiled and nodded. Hasa rode his camel and began to walk, but he had to speed up, and before it was dark he had to get to the next resting place, and spend the dark desert night in the undulating terrain of the dunes, so as not to be buried by the irregular sandstorms at night.

Tian Mao lay his head on the hump, and the camel's pace became faster.

I don't know what happened to the others, the eleven people who escaped from the barracks together with Tian Mao were now dead, and later they fled separately. Now the safest may be Liu Chen, and the others are missing.

Tian Mao was very worried! Tian Mao was very melancholy.

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Desert darkness comes late, especially in this season, when the days are short and the nights are long.

As night falls, camels crawl in the ravines of several dunes, munching hay in their mouths.

The caravan of twenty or so people gathered around and set a fire with the dry wood that had been buried in advance.

Each caravan had its own unique route, and in order to use the camels' physical strength to pull more goods, they would often bury some of the necessary supplies at each passing place. I am not afraid that people will steal it, first, these hidden substances are not valuable, such as dry wood, ordinary items in cloth. Second, even if someone finds out, if you want to use a little, you can use it as much as you want, and you won't use it all up once or twice, as long as you don't take it all away. Of course, these worries are also superfluous, no one will take these things away stupidly, this kind of worthless things are useless at all, and they can't be exchanged for money.

The desert is still scorching hot during the day, and when the sun sets, the temperature drops very quickly because the sand is not insulated, resulting in very cold nights in the desert.

Around the fire, each chewed the dry food they had brought with them, and some began to sing a folk song that Tian Mao did not understand.

Hasa handed Tian Mao a few pieces of beef jerky and sat next to Tian Mao.

"He's singing the homesick song of our hometown, and we've been out for more than three months. It's him every time, and he thinks his wife thinks so badly. ”

Hasa's explanation to Tian Mao set the mood around the fire, and everyone looked at the singer and laughed.

When the singer saw that all eyes were on him, he was not ashamed but triumphant.

"What's the drop, is it wrong to take a beautiful wife? You are envious. ”

The crowd was again a burst of "shouting", all kinds of laughter and scolding, and amusing sounds one after another.

Very warm, Tian Mao has not felt such a cheerful atmosphere for a long time, and Tian Mao has enjoyed this feeling for a while.

"Do you have any plans for entering the desert?" Hasa asked Tian Mao in a whisper.

Tian Mao really hadn't thought about this problem, mainly because he wasn't familiar with Chishazhou, and he hadn't heard of it before.

"Take a step, look at a step. There's really nothing going on at the moment. I just want to get stronger faster, but I don't know how to get stronger. ”

Hasa looked at Tian Mao in surprise.

"How can that work? The desert is so big, you don't have any plan at all, if you walk alone in the desert, not only will the climate change greatly, but there are also some potential dangers, and if you are not careful, you will easily die. ”

Tian Mao was embarrassed, it was indeed as Hasa said, the people who entered the desert in his memory survived a miracle, not to mention that in such a world where anything would happen, it must be several times more dangerous than the impression of the desert in his memory.

He immediately asked, "Does Brother Hasa have any good opinions?"

One can only put hope in this Hazah, who is very familiar with the desert, and see what good opinions he has in mind.

"After all, I have to admire your courage, it's really a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers. Dare to run into the desert without any planning. Well, I've got a good idea for you. ”

"Brother Hazah, tell me about it. ”

"After you arrive in Nansha City, you can consider staying in Nansha City for a while, and then leave there after making a detailed plan. Although there are a lot of dragons there, it is not excluded that some of them are really capable people, and I heard that most of them are cultivators. If you want to become stronger, you can ask these people more in the city, and as for whether they teach you or not, it may not matter. After all, those people are some weird-tempered people. ”

Tian Mao's heart and mind during this period of time were all cultivators, and when he heard Hasa say this, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"There are so many cultivators, is there anyone still in charge of them?"

At the same time, Tian Mao also voiced his concerns.

"So that place is also a place of lawlessness. However, ordinary people and cultivators won't look at you squarely. ”

Tian Mao nodded slightly, thinking about this opinion, and at the same time expressed his gratitude to Hasa for his kindness.