Chapter 14: The Desert

Outside the canyon, the dirt slope is cut off by the waist, and looking into the distance, is a vast and boundless desert, with yellow sand rolling, vast and desolate.

The blood-red sunset in the distance slowly sank to the horizon, and Wuge jumped down the dirt slope, the sand under his feet was scorched by the sun for a day, and there was still some residual warmth at this time.

Mo Xingran helped Feng Jue to jump down, and was about to turn around to catch the little short and fat bamboo.

Wuge laughed: "Beware of him smashing you on the heel." ”

The wind in the desert blew through the mounds, the sand sea was rippling, and there was no half a figure around except for the endless yellow sand.

"What now?" said Bamboo, with two chubby hands, his face full of sadness.

Who would have thought that in the same regional environment, there is only a not too long canyon apart, with lofty mountains on one side and a desolate desert on the other.

The four of them were dumbfounded, in a dilemma.

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"For now, I have to go back the way I came. It was almost night, the wind was blowing, Feng Jue's voice was blown away in the yellow sand, and there was a hint of despair.

Bamboo shuddered and crossed his arms, "Ahh He sneezed, and a sticky snot came to his mouth.

"The temperature in the desert is losing too quickly, so it's better to go back to the mouth of the canyon for the night and wait until dawn to do so. There are rocks on both sides of the canyon, at least not so windy. Mo Xingran said in a deep voice.

In the past, I only heard that there were fifty-four peaks in this array, but I didn't expect that there was such a big desert, and the Linglong array was so treacherous and changeable, and I didn't know how many hardships and dangers there were ahead.

As he spoke, the sunset had completely sunk into the horizon, the sky was getting darker and darker, and a lone star suddenly appeared in the dark sky, without moon and no clouds, and the lone star was like a single eye, staring at the earth

In the distance, out of nowhere, there was a faint sound of camel bells, which reached Wuge's ears: "Listen, is there anyone?"

Zhuzi put his hand in his ear and listened intently for a long time: "Wuge, are you hungry and hallucinating, why didn't I hear anything?"

Not only did Zhu Zi not hear it, but Mo Xingran and Feng Jue also shook their heads.

"I really heard it, it's the sound of camel bells, it should not be far from here, I'll go and see. Wuge insisted on looking for it, just because she thought that there was a giant python lurking in the canyon somewhere, and she would rather freeze to death in the desert than make the python's rations.

Feng Jue frowned: "Have you forgotten about the corpse West Village so quickly, those seemingly normal villagers are not people, even if there are really people in this desert, do you think we can act rashly?"

"Not really, Feng Jue, if there is really someone, whether it is a human or a demon or a demon, we will have to ask, we are now running around like headless flies, it is never a way, I will accompany Wuge to explore. Mo Xingran said calmly, it is better to risk your life than to die in an unknown way, and it is better to take the initiative than to sit and wait to die.

"Third brother, I still think we should wait for dawn safely. Feng Jue's expression was a little angry.

Wuge turned a deaf ear and said to Mo Xingran: "It's difficult to find the direction in this desert, so as not to get lost, we still take the bamboo to act together, as for Princess Feng Jue, if you don't want to go with us, you can go back to the mouth of the canyon and wait for us first." ”

Feng Jue's face sank when she heard this, even if she was reluctant, she couldn't really wait alone at the mouth of the canyon, "Hmph." With a sigh, he followed behind Mo Xingran with an annoyed face.

So, the four of them walked towards the depths of the dark desert.

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"It should be almost there. Wuge looked for the sound of the camel bell, and walked in the desert for a while, and she really heard the camel bell getting closer and closer.

But except for Wuge, the other three people didn't hear any sound except for the wind along the way.

Feng Jue was a little impatient, she thought of the matter in the corpse West Village, and suddenly stopped: "Shouldn't you really be as the second sister-in-law said, with the monsters in this array, and want to kill us one by one?"

She has always had doubts along the way, and that day Mo Xingran explained to her again and again, she was already suspicious, and Wan Gutian had always had a deep hatred with the demons, and at this time, Wuge insisted that she heard the camel bell, leading them all the way to the depths of the desert, igniting the uneasiness in her heart.

I almost forgot all kinds of wrongs and songs before, but now through Feng Jue's mouth, the nameless fire in my heart "rubbed" and jumped up: "Hmph, Princess Feng Jue can't help but look up to me too much, if I really have that ability, why didn't I almost lose my life in the hands of Na Batian, besides, I broke your second sister-in-law at that time..."

Mo Xingran suddenly grabbed her hand in Wuge's body and squeezed it tightly.

"What are you doing?" Wuge couldn't suppress his anger and turned his head to stare at Mo Xingran.

Mo Xingran was silent, dragged her, and shook his head.

Although Wuge didn't explain to him, it doesn't mean that he didn't see the clues, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that Ran Ling has two hearts, I'm afraid only his second brother doesn't know in his heart. But this layer of window paper should not be broken at this time, if it is not handled properly, I am afraid that the relationship between the ancient heavens and the four seas will be in jeopardy.

Just when Mo Xingran wanted to divert the topic, Wuge saw a row of phantoms slowly walking in the darkness not far behind Mo Xingran.

Bamboo excitedly shouted, "Look! there really are camels!"

The wind was a little strong, and it rolled up the yellow sand on the ground, and slapped on people's faces with a faint pain.

There were as many as seven or eight camels in that row, and the humps rose and fell in a row, and the sounds of "jingling" and "dongling" came and went, crisp and pleasant.

As the caravan drew closer to them, Wuge saw a tall man at the leader, dressed in ragged cloth, with a felt hat on his head, a long knife pinned to his waist, and a snuffbox in his hand.

Mo Xingran and Wuge looked at each other, and Wuge nodded at him and walked towards the tall man.

The man only walked forward on his own, the wind and sand were too strong, he squinted his eyes and saw several people walking towards him, pulling the rope leading the camel, hanging his head and speeding up.

When he walked to the man's side, Mo Xingran raised a hand and stopped: "This big brother, our group is lost in the desert, and I want to ask you if there is a place to stay in the desert." "This man must know the terrain of the desert well, otherwise he wouldn't have driven a camel caravan alone late at night.

However, the man didn't raise his head, lowered his head, and walked around Mo Xingran, as if he didn't see him.

Obviously, this man doesn't want to meddle in his affairs, he is sweating in a hurry, they don't know how far they have gone now, they can't tell the direction in all directions, and if they want to walk back to the canyon, I'm afraid it will be difficult.

"Big brother, a few of us escaped from the canyon, we haven't eaten for a few days, if you don't show us the direction now, I'm afraid that a few of us won't survive tonight, and we will all die in this desert." Wuge didn't think much about it, and he didn't blink his eyes and sold miserably, he just asked this man to be kind and save them.

Mo Xingran glared at Wuge, she couldn't think about it, the people of Corpse West Village had never passed through the canyon, but they were able to escape from the canyon, isn't this suspicious?

Sure enough, the man raised his head when he heard this, his lips were a little cracked, his face was dry, his eye sockets were sunken, his eyes were full of doubts, and his voice was hoarse: "You guys, did you come from the canyon?"

At this point, Mo Xingran dragged Wuge behind him and nodded at the man: "Yes, we came from the canyon." ”

The man lowered his head again, not knowing what he was pondering.

The wind in the desert was getting stronger and the temperature was getting colder, and a few camels suddenly knelt on their front feet in the sand without knowing whether they were tired or something.

After a while, the man's hoarse voice sounded again: "There is going to be a sandstorm, you guys come with me." ”

When Wuge heard this, he hurriedly rushed out from behind Mo Xingran, and nodded at the man: "Thank you, you are such a kind person." ”

Feng Jue and Zhuzi's hearts hanging in their throats were finally put in their stomachs.

It's just that when Feng Jue looked at Wuge, there was still a little hostility in her eyes, she didn't understand, why Wuge was so far away and could hear the sound of camel bells, although the demon was born with more developed five senses, but as an immortal of the Skyburst Realm, her five senses should be much higher than Wuge, but she didn't hear anything along the way, which was unreasonable.

There must be demons when things go wrong, even if Wuge has no intention of harming their lives, she must remind the third brother to be more vigilant.

"Keep up, sandstorms don't have long eyes. The man sniffed snuff sharply, dragged the camel forward, and Wuge and the others followed him.

After a while, the wind suddenly rose, and the strong wind rolled up layer after layer of yellow sand, and the howling wind carried sand and gravel to the face.

The man covered his face with his elbows and walked forward against the wind, and in the darkness he pulled the lid of the snuffbox, only to see a wisp of smoke wafting out of the snuffbox, and he muttered strange syllables in a low voice, not like a vernacular, but like a spell.

The men had no time to care for anything else, and grabbed the reins of the camel caravan, squinting against the wind, and their legs were as heavy as lead.

Seeing that the sandstorm was about to take shape, the man was a little inexplicably impatient: "Why haven't you come yet?" he whispered.

He looked up to the wind, looking into the distance as best he could, and suddenly saw that there seemed to be a red light not far away, and he knew that it was finally here.

The man stopped, dragged the ink star behind him to the front, attached it to his ear, and said in a hoarse voice: "After a while, just say that you are coming with me, don't want anything else, say." The wind poured into his throat, and he struggled to spit out the words.

Mo Xingran nodded a little puzzled.

Not far away, I don't know when a big tree appeared, the tree grew extremely luxuriantly, full of branches and leaves, a few strands of red silk were wrapped around the tree, and a few small glass lamps were hanging, and the red light was revealed in a trance. A woman dressed in a fiery red gown, covered with a red scarf, leaned against the trunk of a tree, beckoning to them, bewitching, her long black hair hanging down on her chest, but she did not move at all.

No song is stupid, and he sees something strange.

But there was only one way to go, so I could only hang my head and face the wind before the sandstorm, and walk towards the tree with difficulty.

When we arrived more than ten meters away from the tree, the wind suddenly stopped, and there seemed to be an invisible barrier around the tree, isolating the wind and sand from the outside world.

"Mosuo**. The man stopped, patted the sand on his body, and beckoned to the woman in red not far away.

This is not like the language on the continent of the Later Divine Era, Wan Gutian has been in charge of the 'Qiankun Seal' for tens of millions of years, and Mo Xingran has been nurtured since he was a child, and can distinguish the languages and spells of various races, but what this man said, Mo Xingran has never heard of.

He glanced at Wuge alertly, and found that she was looking at the woman in red intently.

"Yo, what a handsome little brother. The woman ignored the tall man, moved lightly, and walked to Mo Xingran's side.

The clothes on her body are like the clothes of the Mogan women of the human race, but they are very different, her waist is bare like a willow, her dress is divided into two sections, the gold silk is embroidered into a full moon printed on the chest, the dress is short and the skirt is long, and the upper body is very cool.

The woman's fingers touched Mo Xingran's handsome face: "Little brother is here to stay?"

Feng Jue's face was not very good-looking, but she knew that the overall situation was important at the moment.

"Exactly, girl, our group has come with the caravan of this eldest brother. Mo Xing silently dodged the woman and stood beside the tall man.

The man pointed to the seven or eight camels behind him, and a smile appeared on his dry face: "I wanted to spend the night in the desert, and I could have arrived tomorrow afternoon, but unfortunately, I encountered a sandstorm, no, I can only trouble you to pick me up." ”

Wuge's brain was confused, she stared at the bewitching woman, and faintly felt that the woman was a little familiar.

The bamboo dragged the clothes dyed by Mo Xing, his glutinous little face was no longer bloody, and he came out of the corpse Xicun, he didn't look like a good person now, plus this woman's mannerisms, it was definitely not a demon or a demon, but the woman in red and the old woman in red...

Thinking about it like this, Bamboo retracted his little head behind Mo Xingran, but he didn't think that this also attracted the attention of the woman in red: "Heh, there is a small one, Ding Ba, the things you brought this time are extraordinary." ”

There were words in the words, and the head of the wooden fish in the bamboo suddenly shone brightly, he smelled the smell of danger, and pulled Mo Xingran's hand and was about to run back: "Childe, let's go quickly." ”

Mo Xingran grabbed the back collar of the bamboo, and said in a deep voice: "What are you panicking about." ”

Of course he knew that this woman was weird, but when he went back to the desert at this time, wasn't he looking for death?

"What, little brother is reluctant to be a slave?" The woman's voice was as tender as water, and a pair of eyes on the red gauze stared at Mo Xing Ran and secretly sent autumn waves.

"The slave family is even more reluctant to be such a handsome little brother, tonight, the slave family will be fine..." Seeing the woman's water snake-like body towards the ink star.

Mo Xingran's brows were tightly locked, and he was worried about how to avoid the woman, Feng Jue suddenly walked over in three steps and two steps, and pushed away the woman in red, the movement was too big, and he actually ripped off the woman's veil scarf.

"Ahh

The corners of the woman's left half of her lips were open to her sideburns, half of her teeth and gums were exposed, and there was no good flesh on the left side of her face, which was hideously twisted like a shura.

The woman's face was as gloomy as iron, she was not at a loss, but her eyes showed a fierce light, staring directly at Feng Jue, and her voice was very ruthless: "Hmph, toast and don't eat and drink, I want to see today, I can't enter the quicksand market, how can you outsiders live!"

She turned her head to the big man: "Ding Ba, I can't control these few people you brought, throw them into the sandstorm and fend for themselves." ”

The burly man stared at the woman's face, his body trembled imperceptibly, obviously, he had not seen the face under the woman's veil: "Ahem, ahem, okay." ”

The man named Ding Ba tied the camel's rope to the tree, drew the long knife at his waist, and turned to walk towards Wuge and the others.

Wuge turned around and looked behind her one step away, the wind was raging, flying sand and stones, she trembled, if she wanted to say that she was sorry for her life, it was brought by her mother's womb, and how many hardships she had gone through to survive to this day, she didn't want to throw her life away in this barren desert, becoming a soul and being exposed to the sun and rain.

"Girl, we are abrupt, can you not worry about us, you see, this little boy is only so old, can you bear to let him die?" Wuge pointed to the bamboo that was shrunk into a lump not far away, and looked at the woman in red with a bitter expression.

The woman in red had already picked up the scarf at this time, covered her terrifying face, and glanced at Wuge: "If you want me to forgive, you can let her kneel on the ground and kowtow to me ten times!" After that, her finger pointed straight at Feng Jue not far away.

Feng Jue sneered: "Joke! Everyone will be punished by demons and evils, and if you want me to kowtow to you, I would rather die!"

Feng Jue had an arrogant expression on her face, she was the princess of the eternal heavens, when had she been ridiculed like this. This demon girl is profligate, she dares to covet her third brother, and wants her to kowtow to her, it is impossible!