Volume 1 The Wasteland Chapter 20 Lost
Chunyue rode the black dragon full of questions, and on the journey back, she almost thought of all the excuses to excuse Mu Chen, but she still couldn't convince herself.
The black dragon didn't steal and play tricks, and kept flying with her, and there was no stop on the road, but the route was slightly changed, and it could have reached the boundary map department directly to the west, but in order to delay time, it first turned north and then flew southwest, deliberately detouring a little far.
The scenery of the wasteland is basically the same, that is, the golden sand dunes and the dry Gobi, except for a few slightly large-scale monster caves and nests, there are almost no landmark buildings, and the direction and distance cannot be distinguished in the sky.
That night they landed on the top of a sand dune, and when they were about to rest, Chunyue walked up to the black dragon and asked, "I know you didn't lie to me this time, but it's been two days, can't you get there tomorrow?"
The black dragon shook his head first, and then nodded again to say that he could, he could indeed arrive tomorrow, but it was the wasteland post station of the old man Weng, not the Boundary Map Department. It wanted to go to the post station first and delay for a day, and then take her to fly over the boundary map department to meet Mu Chen.
Chunyue stepped forward and stroked the black dragon's neck and said, "Thank you for your hard work", and lay down to rest.
Early the next morning, she rode the black dragon and continued to fly towards the wasteland station, she had been sullen for the past few days, always gloomy and silent, and today finally had some life.
"Do you say that when I saw Mu Chen, I directly said that he was a big liar, or did I pretend to be calm and wait for him to confess. ”
"No, he has to keep pretending that nothing happened, and I still pretend to be calm, isn't it just what he wants, or just point to it, expose him as a big liar, and let him explain clearly. ”
"It's not good, if the tone is too heavy and the sense of proportion is not good, will he really throw me down, ah... Ahh
The black dragon lowered his eyelids, his expression was helpless, and he didn't make any response. Let her talk to herself.
Chunyue still had concerns in her heart, but when she thought of seeing Mu Chen soon, she didn't continue to worry about it. Although the two have not known each other for a long time, as the only stranger who has confided in his heart, he is the only one who can bring himself out of that unchanging desperate life.
After flying like this for a while, everything went smoothly, and when the black dragon was about to lower the altitude to look for the post station, he found a team of centaurs below, in the same direction as it, all heading south.
"What's that?"
"Quick, protect the principal, and prepare to meet the enemy. ”
"What kind of monster is this, I've never seen it before, how can it be so huge. ”
"Dragon, it's a dragon, spread out. ”
"What's the use of running, everyone uses skills to knock it down, and if it appears here, it must be coming for us. ”
Chunyue heard the bustling shouts below, looked down and saw that a magic cannon had just grazed past her face, so she quickly got up and asked the black dragon, "Who are they and why are they attacking us." ”
The black dragon didn't bother to respond, and the magic and throwing weapons cast from the ground came at it one after another, and it quickly dodged left and right, speeding away.
"There seems to be someone on this dragon. ”
"Do you see clearly? This is a black dragon, how can it be controlled?"
"Get out of the way. A magician who seemed to be very capable pushed everyone away and began to launch a magic circle, and the raised wand shot out a red light, piercing the sky and hitting the black dragon, who dodged and hit the abdomen.
After being hit, its wings shook violently, deviating from its original flight path, and Junyue hurriedly grabbed its horns and adjusted its sitting position.
The black dragon was badly injured, blood dripping from its abdomen, its flight altitude fluctuated, and its speed slowed down, but it still gave it all its strength, and after desperately flying up to the clouds, it escaped the pursuit below.
"How are you, do you want to stop and rest, are you injured?" Chunyue couldn't see the wound on the black dragon's abdomen, only saw its painful expression, so she was worried about the injury.
The black dragon ignored it, dragging the bleeding wound and continued to fly, but it had already deviated from the direction of the post station, and it didn't care about turning back to find the post station, and just wanted to take her to fly across the boundary map department as soon as possible to find Mu Chen. But after all, he was seriously injured, and after a while, he lost his speed, the frequency of his wings flapping became slower and slower, and the flight altitude also decreased, Chunyue felt that it was powerless, so he hurriedly dissuaded: "Don't fly anymore, since the injury is so serious, let's land quickly, it's so far away, they can't catch up with us." ”
Eventually, the black dragon was physically exhausted and was forced to land halfway up a mountain. As soon as it landed, the black dragon could not stand down, Chunyue hurriedly checked its injuries, it had a wound about sixty centimeters long on its abdomen, drenched in blood, subject to the conditions, she could only tear her clothes and add some leaves, tender grass to bandage it simply, but the wound was too deep, and the place that had just been wrapped would ooze blood after a while, and she went to find other things that could be used to re-deal with it, so she was busy for a long time, and finally sat down on the ground with tears in her eyes, staring at the black dragon with tears in her eyes.
The black dragon was lying on the ground panting weakly, looking at Chunyue in front of him, desperately raising one of his front paws, pointing to the southeast and making a "whirring" sound, that was the direction in which it and Mu Chen agreed to meet, it tried its best to signal to Chunyue, but it could only do this.
Chunyue didn't understand what it meant, thinking that it was just in unbearable pain, so she hurriedly stepped forward to hold its head and caress its nose, but the black dragon did not calm down, but its voice became louder and louder, and with the last roar that broke through the sky, it disappeared.
Chunyue sat in place and didn't know what to do, obviously such a big dragon, just disappeared out of thin air in front of her eyes, it took a while to relieve herself, she thought the black dragon was dead, so she cried loudly, and it took a long time to stabilize her emotions.
Although the black dragon lied to her repeatedly, after a few days of getting along, Chunyue was still very grateful to it, "It saved me when it was in Liuli Lake, and when Mu Chen's lies were exposed, it followed me without abandoning, it was protecting me all the way, and now I am left alone, where should I go to find Mu Chen?" After thinking about it for a long time, I finally mustered up the courage and went down the mountain road alone.
She looked around as she walked, except for the lush woods, the rugged and dangerous mountain roads, and occasionally heard all kinds of strange noises, the forest could not distinguish the direction, and there was no end in sight, and she was worried that the sudden appearance of the demonic beast would make her tremble all the way and move slowly.
It was about to get dark, and the forest path was getting more and more blurry, so she thought that instead of exploring the dark path, it would be better to find a comfortable place to spend the night, have a good rest, calm down, and go down the mountain tomorrow. So she stumbled under a big tree, made sure that there was nothing abnormal around, and sat down to rest on the trunk of the tree, tossing for a day, and lost the black dragon, she was physically and mentally exhausted, and she had no appetite, and soon fell asleep.
At night, the temperature in the mountains dropped, and Chunyue, who was halfway asleep, was awakened by the slightest cold, and was just about to get up to find some branches and fallen leaves to make a fire to keep warm, when he accidentally saw a pair of glowing eyes staring at him in the bushes not far away.
"Could it be a demonic beast?" Junyue pulled out the dagger at his waist and bowed down to meet the battle. But the monster she thought didn't attack her, just wandered left and right in the bushes, watching her every move.
"Chak wolves, I, Yabek Chunyue, have summoned you to fight for me, using my soul as a medium, and show up. ”
Summoning four Steppenwolves, she let her guard down, and the number was superior enough to deal with it. When they searched for their target again, the glowing eyes were gone, and the wolves instinctively roared in the direction it had disappeared, waiting for the order to pursue.
"It's so late, the light is dim, the trees here are dense, it's difficult to move, and I don't know what the other party is, since we escaped, then let's not chase, you stay and help me keep vigil." The four Steppenwolves stopped growling and gathered around her, guarded.
In this way, Junyue slept peacefully until the morning under the protection of the wolves, and nothing happened. She called the wolves back and continued down the mountain alone.
The road down the mountain was much more complicated than she thought, yesterday she was in a trance and absent-minded, and when she saw the road, she followed it and didn't care about the direction. Today, when I looked closely, I found that there were many forks in the mountain road, the branch lines were intricately stretched in all directions, and the surrounding jungle was dense, and it was impossible to tell which one was correct.
"Anyway, I'm going down the mountain, no matter how many forks there are, as long as it's downhill, I'll definitely be able to get out. She thought very simply, as long as the road has a slope, it must be the direction of the downhill, but how to choose when you encounter three or four downhill roads.
Chunyue didn't care about it, she picked the best downhill road and kept walking, and soon came to a dead end, so she could only turn back, but she didn't mark it when she came, and it was not clear what road she came down from, so she turned around in the mountains for several hours, either hitting a cliff or going around in place, and couldn't find a way out at all.
"I'm completely lost, I can't make a mistake like this anymore, I have to find a vantage point to find the right direction. The cliff I just passed was unobstructed by trees and had a wide view, which was a good place to climb and overlook, and I had to go back. So she went back the way she came, ready to see the mountain on the edge of the cliff, and then carefully plan the route down the mountain.
"Since the morning, I feel that someone is following me, although the mountains and forests can cover my figure, but I have been detouring back and forth, there are obvious traces of being covered on the footprints before, there are human and animal footprints, could it be that the monster that monitored me last night was instructed by someone, what is the purpose of tracking me?"
"After following me for so long, he didn't attack me, it seems that he was waiting for me to make a mistake and reap the benefits. I still have to hurry down the mountain to find Mu Chen, I don't have time to deal with him here, so it's better to plan and sell a loophole to lure him to appear. Chunyue returned to the edge of the cliff by the original route, but the purpose was no longer to discern the direction, but also to lure out the people who were following her and confront her face to face.