Jia Xiao shook his head and shook off the cold and heavy things on his face. www.biquge.info The young man tried to raise his hand to clean his face, but found that his entire arm had been buried in the sand. He shook his shoulders vigorously before pulling his arm out from under the sand, the hunting suit giving a sticky and rough feeling from the action, and the sand was afraid that it had seeped into the inner lining of the armor.

The One-Star Hunter fell to the ground on his back, most of his body buried in the sand at some point. Feeling the heaviness on his body, he hurriedly wiped his face, dusted the sand off his eyelashes, and finally opened his eyes in a daze. The young man's eyes were dark and quiet, with only a little starlight flickering in the distant heights. The cold wind blew across the ground, making a "rustling" sound in his ears, and Jia Xiao's mind wandered for a full minute before he realized that he had not yet gone to another world.

The "...... pain" was long overdue, and the hunter let out a hoarse exclamation and sat up suddenly. The sand covering his chest slid down with a rattle, and more fine sand poured into his armor through the gaps in the hunting suit.

Distant memories filled the hunter's mind little by little, and fragments of encounters with the ancient dragons flashed vaguely in front of his eyes. In the Fengshan Dragon's natural disaster-like offensive, the small hunting group did not have the strength to fight back at all. Compared to the dangers encountered today, the hunters' pre-departure discussions and plans are simply a hunter's game for children. The storm wall that Xiao Yang risked his life to resist was just an ordinary attack by the Fengshan Dragon, and with an attack like that, the dragon might be able to send out hundreds or thousands of times in a row.

And it does exactly that.

After the attack was neutralized, the mountain dragon spat out a second sandstorm without pause. Although the wind and sand came in a hurry, it was by no means something that the hunters could bear. One by one, the fleeing companions were swept into the wind and sand, and duckweed floated high into the air for hundreds of meters. The strong wind carried the dizzy crowd at high speed for a long time, and in the treacherous wind, the boy completely lost his weight and sense of direction, and even the concept of time became blurred, thinking that he probably lost consciousness at that time.

"Xiaoyang!" Thinking of this, Jia Xiao's heart suddenly tightened. He quickly stood up, only to realize that there was no obvious injury on his body. His limbs had not been broken, his ribs were still standing side by side, and he had a few bruises and abrasions on his body, but they were all caused by the wind and the rocks. He subconsciously looked at the sky, vaguely recalling the height at which he had been thrown away, and it was a miracle that he had fallen from that place and only caused some painless injuries.

"Xiaoyang!" The boy shouted again. He seemed to remember that the moment before he was thrown away, he desperately grabbed the body of his unconscious companion. He stumbled and probed around, but his face grew more and more gloomy. In the hurricane, I don't know when I let go of the hand holding Xiaoyang, in that kind of wind vortex, my companion may have been blown dozens of kilometers away.

"Damn it!" The hunter scolded, but the soles of his feet tripped over something hard in the sand. The sand under Jia Xiao's body was pushed away, revealing a dry and hard sand fish dragon that had long been dead. Beneath the monster's corpse, a familiar tattered hunting suit was buried in the sand.

Overjoyed, the boy hurriedly dug open the sand beneath him with both hands, threw away the beast corpses that were in the way, and exposed the sand to the chests and heads of his companions.

After withstanding the blow of the Fengshan Dragon head-on, and being swept here by the wind, Xiao Yang's brows were still tightly locked in the coma. Fortunately, after some investigation, Jia Xiao finally confirmed that the tall boy's pulse was quite stable, and there were no obvious injuries on his head, and his life was finally saved.

Jia Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and patted the hunter's face, unsurprisingly not getting half a response. He flipped up his companion's hunting suit and checked Xiaoyang's injuries. After walking through the hurricane, the hunter unexpectedly did not have many external injuries on his body, except for patches of bruises on his chest, abdomen, ribs, and limbs. The young man's skin and flesh bulged, propping up the hunting suit to a bulging bag, and his chest was bandaged with bruisish marks.

"I'm sorry......" Jia Xiao pulled out the knife at his waist. If the bruises continue to develop, it may compress the chest cavity and cause suffocation, leaving the unconscious Xiaoyang to suffocate in his own blood for no apparent reason. He picked up the buckle of the hunting suit three or two, cut the leather buckle, picked out the circle of bandages that were already wrapped around Xiao Yang's body, gritted his teeth, and cut a knife mark horizontally on his chest.

Blood gushed out, spreading all over his chest in the blink of an eye, the bulging bruise on the hunter's chest shriveled down, and the knife edge closed with the hunter's breathing.

The pain of "hissing ......" through the chest finally woke up the sleeping Xiaoyang. The young man suddenly opened his eyes suddenly, and regardless of the situation in front of him, he pulled out the one-handed sword at his waist and threw it violently in the direction of Jia Xiao.

"Hey!" The big sword boy leaned back and sat down on his companion's lap with a "poof", the skinning knife in his hand towards the opponent's blade. The sound of metal clashing sounded, and the hunter's words could be said: "It's me!" ”

The hurried throw completely exhausted the last bit of Xiao Yang's strength, and watching the short sword spin and fly away under the collision, the young man's head tilted and fainted again.

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"What time is it?" Xiao Yang licked his lips. The bitter taste of the restorative was still on the young man's lips, which Jia Xiao forced down when he was unconscious, "Where are we?" ”

After more than an hour, the tall boy woke up leisurely. The armor on the hunter's upper body had been removed, and the edge of the knife had been bandaged by his companions. Jia Xiao used his heavy sword to dig a simple shelter in the sand dunes, and there was no firewood in the vast desert, so the two had to make do with each other.

"It's almost dawn," Jia Xiao plunged his heavy sword into the sand, forcibly commanding his aching body to do such a big project, and the hunter's physical strength had reached its limit. Under such a big whirlwind, the weapons on the hunter's back were not blown away, and most of the potions and props he carried were not lost or damaged, which was the only fortunate thing in the current scene, "I don't know where this is, but it must not be Xishu, everyone was blown away by the wind caused by the monster." We were in a coma for about five hours...... Or longer than that, during which time a hurricane could send us anywhere in the hunting grounds. ”

"'We'?" The lying hunter said bitterly, "Everyone...... Didn't you escape the attack of the Fengshan Dragon? Where are they all? ”

"I don't know," Jia Xiao felt his mouth dry for a while when he heard Xiao Yang ask. He pulled down his clairvoyance and pretended to investigate the situation around him, but he avoided his companion's inquiring eyes, "I checked all the neighborhood, and I only found you." The wind is coming so fast that everyone is afraid that they will all be blown to different places. He comforted himself again, "But both of us are fine, and I think the others should be okay too." ”

"I know we don't have a chance......" The tall boy lay on the ground unable to move, but the sigh came one after another, "In the end, I still can't protect anyone......

"No, you're already very good." Jia Xiao turned around and pointed the clairvoyance to the other side, "The monster's wind wall dissipated at the last moment, that was what you did, right?" ”

"No big deal." Holding back the pain all over his body, the young man sat up with his arms supported and cleaned off the layer of yellow sand covering his legs, "The shield is broken, and there is no need to cover anything anymore." ”

"Root," the One-Star Hunter spat out a word, "according to the old dragonman, that's the name of the ornament bead on my shield." ”

This is a special accessory that is not destined to be compatible with any regular inlays from the very beginning, and its effect can only be used once. When a hunter is attacked far beyond his ability to resist, the trinket will crumble into powder along with the equipment it contains, in exchange for the complete dispersal of the attack. In other words, this is an extra life given to the boy by the dragon craftsman.

"And that kind of thing?" Jia Xiao was secretly speechless. A small shield and an ornament can actually neutralize the full force of an ancient dragon in an instant, and the one-star hunter can't help but deepen his impression of the mystery and strength of the group of dragon craftsmen.

"If I didn't know that I wouldn't die, do you think I would really dare to stand in my way?" Nie Xiaoyang lay down again, facing the sky on his back, silently digesting the severe pain all over his body. Although the ornament can save the hunter's life, the pain should not be less. These pains do not come from existing trauma, but are buried deep in every strand of blood and muscle. Closing his eyes, Xiao Yang could even feel the storm created by the Fengshan Dragon cutting the fascia and blood vessels all over his body. The more powerful the accessory ability, the more difficult it is to eliminate the side effects, and the hunter doesn't know how long this state will last.

Jia Xiao was noncommittal, and the clairvoyant swept in another direction. Even if there is a life-saving hunting tool that is so powerful that it defies the sky, not everyone dares to face the earth-destroying attack of the ancient dragon species head-on. Xiao Yang can choose to block it in an instant, and the courage of this teammate is several levels higher than his own description.

"It's so strange," Jia Xiao's face changed suddenly, pushing the clairvoyant back to his forehead, "Why can the shadow of the sandstorm only be seen from the west?" ”

"What does that mean?" Xiao Yang shivered in pain, but he still didn't miss any opportunity to understand his current situation.

"Remember the sandstorm cage made by the Fengshan Dragon?" The One-Star Hunter explained solemnly, "If it's not that the Elder Dragons have taken the initiative to change the rules of the storm, then we are no longer in it. ”

"You mean, the whale...... Threw us out hundreds of kilometers with a gust of wind? How is this possible? ”

"That's an ancient dragon, what's so strange." Jia Xiao looked around, trying to make out the familiar terrain from the rolling sand dunes, "If I'm guessing correctly, we're near Locklac now." ”