The temperature on the sand surface is very high, and you can feel the low scream of the hot leather boots when you step on it. The grains of sand are like small moving insects, moving with their trampling, silently leaving their footprints on the sand.

The red sun, hanging above the desert, is always there, and people seem to be relentlessly chased by it. Looking at the sun, Pang Tong reminded him of the ancient mythical story "Kuafu chasing the sun". He took off his helmet and held it in his hand, thinking, "Just looking at this damn sun seems to be too far away, and it's unbearable." ”

His idea wasn't new, and he wasn't the only one who came up with it. It's a silent resonance. Even if you don't say it, everyone on the battlefield is already full of complaints about the desert, and they are full of malice towards the sun. But they had no choice, and after such a brutal journey, they still had to face war, which seemed to be the worst thing to do. At this time, the morale of Pang Tong's army was already very different from that before the expedition. But there is no way, Pang Tong, who had expected the bad situation before coming, came here with the mood of a duel with the devil in his heart.

It's just that the sand dunes that seem to be all around them forever make their sense of going around in circles again. Even Pang Tong had to send someone to the front to ask Pang De. When the soldier returned, he reported: "It is true, but it is not wrong." ”

Pang Tong's heart seemed to have become heavier, and his face showed a wry smile. He wanted to say, "Isn't this a joke?" ”

This is a complaint, and he can't say it, otherwise everyone's complaints will sweep the whole army like a wave, and it will be even more unpeaceful.

The sand surface is still loyally floating under his feet.

They walked, the weather was dry, muggy, and everyone was sweating. It seems that summer has already arrived, and it is an unprecedented hot summer, and no one is used to it. Even Liang Xing and Pang De, who are desert people, actually don't like the desert, which is something that everyone knows. If you have the opportunity, who doesn't want to live in the peaceful, beautiful and prosperous Central Plains.

"So the people of Liangzhou are bent on hitting Yongzhou." Pang Tong sighed. Dian Wei's horse approached, and the big man handed over a yellow leather water bag, and Pang Tong took it and opened the cork. Lifting the water bag high at an angle, the warm water, which is cooler than the air, enters the throat and enters the stomach, and a power that awakens one's will wells up in my heart. He wiped the corners of his mouth, changed the stopper, and handed it back to Dian Wei. Dian Wei also had a dry mouth, and after taking it, he drank it in a big gulp.

Pang Tong stroked the neck of the black horse with a long mane and said, "Brother, you have worked hard. When you arrive at a good place, you must eat and sleep well. ”

After he finished speaking, he looked around at his tired army. Everyone is dragging a godless shell on their feet.

And then.

The earth trembled, and in a corner a dark voice rustled. The soldiers there felt the trembling of the sand and the swirling pits formed by the sinking sand. The crowd was in an uproar, and the soldiers who had not gathered on the battlefield screamed. When Pang Tong learned of this, he immediately ordered people to stay away from this place. But normal people do this. But it was not satisfactory, and the spiral nests that seemed to be evenly arranged began to close and became a huge spiral nest.

Then the giant protruded from the sand, a huge yellow, almost the same color as the sand, covering the sky with his house-like body, and the monster nearly five feet tall carried his earthworm-like body with a face like an eyeless tongue. The monster peered out toward the falling, trembling crowd below, with a bleak face without eyeballs. The soldiers were terrified, and their feet went limp. Those who were near, buried in the sand by the whirlpool, howled and screamed.

"Oh my God!"

Pang Tong groaned. Is this an ancient species? With such a tall body, even if he was nearly half a mile away, he could see it clearly. What a spectacular monster-like creature. Pang Tong even thinks that this is not a living thing, it is completely a dead thing from hell.

Then, as if he had made up his mind, the huge snake's head shook and moved in all directions, and he opened his bloody mouth full of tiny teeth, and the absolutely viscous liquid adhered to his mouth. Everyone who saw it was pale, and his pupils were dilated. Some of them had fainted to the ground. You can't blame them for being useless, even Zhao Yun and the others have changed their faces slightly, holding the weapons in their hands but don't know what to do.

Like a lawless creature beyond the reach of the sky, it slammed into the fearful soldiers, and its well-trained, ferocious attack like a serpent engulfed people and sand in one gulp. It held its head high and swallowed the sand mixed with the frightened still alive soldiers, as if it were about to roar at the sky, and it pointed to the sky with its wide mouth.

"Die!"

Someone roared. It was Pound, who was furious, and he actually shot the halberd in his hand and stabbed it on the surface of the huge monster, and then the halberd head had completely submerged into the huge body, and a dark brown liquid barely overflowed from the wound. It seemed that he had fled from the kingdom of fear, and those around him who wanted to live witnessed Pound's actions, and threw their weapons over one after another, throwing them hard. The monster was covered in weapons, and it shook its head and let out a muffled sound like the final sigh of the dead, and then its body retracted, as if it had eyes on the other end, and its body sank into the sand. The sand sloped, filling the void it left behind. Pang Tong gasped.

Soldiers, you look at me, I look at you, as if the scene just happened in a fantasy world. However, the group of people just now was literally swallowed. What kind of digestive system does that monster have, how does it digest the armor, the weapons that pierce the mucous membranes, and the upsetting yellow sand?

It's not something they have to think about anymore. They were helplessly looking for something. The man named Pang De came to Pang Tong's side and arched his hand: "It's the desert monster Buckna, also called the sandworm." ”

Pang Tong said with a heavy heart: "How terrible is this desert? ”

Liang Xing's face turned pale, and he said, "Pound! This is the area where sandworms are active, you should know it! ”

"You also know, so why didn't you object in the first place?"

Liang Xing bit his lip and said, "It's the first time I've seen this ghost guy in my life!" ”

Pound shook his head disapprovingly and said, "Go on, we have no turning back." This sentence resonated with the words in Pang Tong's heart. Pang Tong looked at the sky, and the hot air was flowing in the air, forming a strong tropical storm, but he was not afraid. The boundless, endless sky he saw seemed to mock his small, bacteria-like thing in the desert with contempt.

"You can't be defeated." He cried out in his heart. On the other hand, praying that the horrible guy would not show up again.

They continued their journey and began to move towards the northwest corner. In the middle of the night, after they set up camp, Pang Tong was in a blanket of animal skin

Fall asleep upside down. Unfortunately, he was woken up after only an hour of sleep.

"Your Excellency?"

Dian Wei shook him. Pang Tong, who quickly fell asleep because Dian Wei was by his side, opened his bloodshot and confused eyes, he grinned as if he was still in a dream, and the Dian Wei he saw was also an illusion, because his vision was still a little blurry, and his hearing was still very dull.

"Your Excellency!"

Dian Wei said again: "Someone please see." ”

Pang Tong rubbed his eyes, stood up from the ground, yawned deeply, and asked with a sad face, "What kind of person, in the middle of the night." ”

"It's a local."

Pang Tongyi's eyes exploded when he heard the whole person, and it seemed that all his charm and vitality were restored in an instant, and his face became serious. This kind of place will meet locals? He thought it was a little incredible. He said, "Please come in." He sat down in a chair with a candle on a wooden table beside him.

Dian Wei said loudly: "Come in." He walked up to Pang Tong and stood behind him.

The curtain was pulled open by an ominous, slightly brown hand that appeared to be a patient. A crooked body was wrapped under the white robe, and the man's face sank into the hood. He politely lifted his hat, revealing a head of coffee-colored hair. He had a large hooked nose and a long horse face that he didn't seem to smile at all, but he managed to keep it all smiling. The whole body has brown skin. His eyes were cast on Pang Tong with deliberate kindness. His face looked a little old, he should be over forty years old, and his left ear had a large thin gold ring like a woman's.

He bared his yellowed teeth and said humbly, "Down there are the people of the Five Lamps Cave, Valla. I heard that your army was in trouble here, and I wanted to come to help. Although his voice wanted to be as polite as possible, because of the sharp and somewhat yin and yang weird tone, Pang Tong and Dian Wei were uncomfortable to hear. It's just that his proposal deeply moved Pang Tong. However, Pang Tong had deep doubts, so he said: "Chuan Liangxing, Pang De." ”