Volume 1 Zhu Guo Chapter 7 There is no boat crossing in the sand sea
The moonlight is selflessly sprinkled in the world, the ancients often express their thoughts through the moonlight, and the bleak moonlight brings sustenance, feelings, elegant and long.
In the inn in the corner of Xianshan Mountain, there are Yiren leaning alone against the window, everything seems to be so harmonious, and the faint sorrow is as silent as tea.
Sitting at the table in a lazy posture, do you feel bored without clothes to knit?
The slender hand is holding the worry is sudden and inexplicable nervousness, the woman's sleepy eyes are looking at the moon, quiet and always sorrowful, I don't know if the other party is the same as herself?
Li Xuan and Zou Sanfu had been walking for a few days after crossing the bridge, and the surrounding environment had begun to become more and more dry and barren, and no one would have thought that there would be such a scene in the deepest part of the Immortal Mountain, where the vitality was the most vigorous, and under the boundless trees, there was another more scorching and fierce existence.
When Li Xuan turned around and couldn't see a little greenery anymore, the yellow sand in the sky brought him anxiety and hope, everything began to coincide with his dream, and everything he passed was verifying an exciting fact - fruit was calling him.
This fact made Li Xuan excited, and he finally buried this excitement in the deepest part of his heart, so that Zou Sanfu did not see his abnormality in the past few days.
But now there is another problem that needs to be solved, the water source is insufficient!
Before crossing the bridge, they had little water left, although the two of them had more perseverance than ordinary people, each other's performance in the past few days was shown in the eyes of each other, they were the kind of people whose bodies completely obeyed their brains, and they all knew that once they drank the water, they would have no last hope, so they would rather endure their bodies to the limit than drink the last pot of water.
The two are like natural confidants, with the same will and ambition. After Li Xuan was rescued by Zou Sanfu, he also let down his vigilance.
"The scorching sun shines on everything, and the desert is endless. ”
Li Xuan suddenly had a feeling, at this time he was like a consciousness in the flood of ups and downs, shallow and humble, the only thing that brought him strength was the dream that was like a world away, that dream brought him luck and hope, so that he seemed to have the courage to dominate the ups and downs.
Li Xuan began to pray for the first time in his life, and this prayer had nothing to do with faith or object. Li Xuan just hoped that all this would not really be so fucked up. He didn't want to lose everything.
Maybe Li Xuan himself didn't notice that since when the two of them were left alone, Zou Sanfu had long since disappeared, and the only pot of water left with Zou Sanfu was missing.
Zou Sanfu betrayed him!
When Li Xuan realized this, the sun had already begun to set, and the golden sand reflected the sunset as cold as blood, although due to the existence of Sun Moon Lake, it was still so hot even at night, Li Xuan clearly felt the cold.
He didn't have a grudge against Zou Sanfu, if it weren't for Zou Sanfu, he would have been a corpse. Zou Sanfu rationally chose to sacrifice a person who was no longer useful in exchange for his own survival.
Even Li Xuan himself agreed with Zou Sanfu's choice, but at that moment, Zou Sanfu's betrayal brought Li Xuan a more direct despair. Now all that drives him to walk is the instinct of his body and the desire to survive.
After losing the water source, Li Xuan has been walking for three days, an important point is the direction, as long as Li Xuan's direction is right, then, there will be a glimmer of hope. If he goes in the wrong direction, Li Xuan will die in this place. If the calculation is correct, Li Xuan's corpse will turn into white bones within three months.
So after not walking for a while, Li Xuan would make sure that he was not wrong by the direction of the sun. But the bigger problem is Li Xuan's own body, Li Xuan has had fantasies since yesterday, and his mouth will always start to hesitate inexplicably, and when Li Xuan comes to his senses, he finds that he is just standing in place.
The skin on his shoulders had begun to crack and lose consciousness, which was also a benefit in a way, because of his lack of consciousness, Li Xuan began to have difficulty controlling his legs to move forward instead of spinning in place.
Li Xuan saw a figure in front of him before, and he wanted to shout for help, but he couldn't, he didn't know if the other party would give himself a knife to his fellow competitor, what was the difference between killing him now and stepping on an ant?
Li Xuan's walking speed is getting slower and slower day by day, and according to this development, he may be less than three kilometers a day in two days.
"I ...... Whining...... Li Xin...... Not ......"
Li Xuan said something inarticulately, he just wanted to drink a sip of water, but the more he thought about the water, the more thirsty he became, Li Xuan drooped his heavy head, the sweat stains on his face were still stained with black mud and sand, his eyes were almost unable to open, and a hair that came out of the clothes on the top of his head stuck to Li Xuan's eyelids, but he didn't even want to waste the strength to raise his hand now.
The white back was covered with sun-peeled skin, the blood in a few cracked skin spots dried up into blood stains, large areas of skin began to die due to lack of water and drought, and more fatally, the body could not provide nutrients and moisture for healing. Li Xuan's body began to be in a hurry from any aspect.
"I'm going to die...... I...... I'm going to die...... Haha......"
Li Xuan shook his head, took a few more steps, and unconsciously retreated back and began to walk again.
There was a helpless and bitter smile on his face. Heaven played a joke on him, or God didn't pay attention to him at all, he himself was a joke. This desert is his last grave, sighing in his heart.
"Zhu Guo...... Hehe...... Ridiculous......"
If it weren't for Zhu Guo, he wouldn't have come here despite Li Xin's advice, and if it weren't for Zhu Guo, he wouldn't have almost died a few times, and then went down in this most painful way. At the parting that morning, he finally felt Li Xin's different feelings for him, it turned out that they had been suppressed for so long.
Years of hesitation and speculation finally became clear and free, and the attachment at that time was not family affection but what he longed for the most.
She is so beautiful, so beautiful that Li Xuan feels unworthy, beautiful makes people feel distant.
It was only in the morning that Li Xuan finally knew that she liked herself.
Yes, she likes herself.
Li Xuan squatted down, his hands resting on the sand, and the hot feeling from his hands told him that he was still alive, and Li Xuan smiled ugly.
He couldn't walk anymore and had to rest.
At this time, he seemed to be in the deepest part of the universe, burning countless stars that were about to perish, he was engulfed by the flames, unable to struggle, and they greedily sucked the last drop of liquid from him.
This great fear surrounded him, and in this mysterious and deadly flame, he was like a pious and ignorant sacrifice. In the face of absolute power, all his helplessness and resentment are wishful thinking.
Fate was playing with his stubbornness, jokingly destroying his proud will.
The good thing is that even if people can't control nature, they can control themselves, and that's their last freedom.
A gust of hot wind blew, Li Xuan was paved with yellow sand, he squatted on the ground motionless, like a dead thing that had lost its vitality, even if he had carefully preserved the little physical strength left, Li Xuan still had no strength to stand up.
He kept doing this, squatting until the evening. "Smack!" Li Xuan sat on the sand, he didn't know what he was thinking in his head, he was ready to die.
All emotions began to fade slowly, and the only thing that proved that he was alive was a slow heartbeat.
"Plop...... Thump............ Plop ......"
He's alive, he's going to die!
The tenacity of life will always exceed people's imagination, and even in the desert there will be miracles of life. Desert lizards are fully aware of the rules of survival in the desert.
The lizards next to Sun Moon Lake absorb the fire element year after year, and have long been integrated with the desert. This terrible place that threatens human life is a natural paradise for them, and they have ensured through various techniques that they can survive in such an arid desert.
There was such a lizard, which had just eaten a full meal, and was leisurely shuttling through the sand, and it slowly approached a "xenomorph". Although they are naturally wary of other creatures, they are much less vigilant until they are sure whether the "xenomorph" that has been motionless for a long time is a creature.
Suddenly, the "xeno" grabbed it with both hands, and the lizard began to struggle, the "xeno" had very little strength, but it could not escape no matter what.
It saw a fierce greedy look in the otherwise lifeless gaze of the "xenomorph". The xenomorph roared, squeezing out his bodily fluids and into his mouth with the last of his strength, until the desert lizard could no longer squeeze out a single piece of water, and it was sent into the mouth of the xenomorph, which had died of curiosity without even chewing much.