16 Quicksand Falls

The teacher was indeed alive, his eyes were kept open with difficulty, a faint dim light in his pupils, his lips trembling slightly, and his breathing was as slight as the gill of a fish...... He was so fragile that the slightest accident would have caused him to leave suddenly.

The crimson blood flowed to the ground, soaking through the teacher's clothes, and the smell of rust filled the air.

"This old guy isn't dead!" Umi wanted to kick the teacher after making sure he was alive, but at the last moment, he stopped—he didn't look like wasting his newly recovered strength for this dying man.

Para didn't dare to look at the blood, only looked at the teacher in a closer place, "Look at his hand," Para said, everyone's eyes were focused, his hand was holding a small stone, "That spell stone, the ...... that can heal wounds" It turned out that it was the spell stone that maintained the teacher's remaining life, and everyone remembered the experience of the teacher who used the spell stone to heal Pala's wounds, and sighed - at that time, the teacher was still a hero and a mentor in most people's hearts......

House and Daniel watched from a short distance like Parra, they didn't say anything, they just hoped that the teacher would die as soon as possible, because they were the ones who gave him the fatal blow, and although they didn't think they had done anything wrong, they always felt like murderers.

Albert recovered from his fright and stared blankly into the teacher's eyes, as if trying to dig something out of them. Then he swallowed a mouthful of water with difficulty, and like everyone else, he spat out with nothing left......

The room was so quiet that even the hissing of breath was clear. The first to break the silence was the teacher who fell in a pool of blood—

"You ...... It's remarkable...... "a debilitating, exhausted voice," ...... But...... Nothing can be changed......" In the face of everyone's disdainful or mocking or worried or fearful eyes, the teacher was as calm, humble and confident as ever.

"At least we beat you." Albert said without mincing.

"Hmm...... You guys...... I used the amplifier in the (dew) collector, right...... Talented...... But your bodies ...... It will also speed up...... Accelerated aging......" The teacher's voice was intermittent, as if it would stop at any moment.

"That's called the 'Amplifier'? Not a spell stone? Daniel asked in a whisper, but Umi interrupted him with a gesture, and Umi immediately said, "We can defeat your so-called 'harvest' at all costs!" ”

"Uh-huh-hmm...... Ahem......" The teacher's confident and eerie laughter and light cough echoed through the room, making several people shudder, "Victory? You guys...... Can't even get out of here......"

"What do you mean?" Albert and House asked together.

"I know!" Para said suddenly, and the teacher's eyes turned slightly to her, revealing a hint of surprise. Para carefully avoided the blood on the ground and walked to the device in the center of the room, placing her hand on one of the levers: "This (lever) can control the hallucinogenic degree of sand and dust in the desperate desert, if adjusted to the maximum, then the sand and dust will be completely impassable, including...... Including the road from the sea...... When we discovered this device, the sand and dust were the most hallucinogenic in the year, which means that no new people have come here to visit and study in the past year, all because of this, their ship cannot enter, or even ...... Buried in the illusion of dust......"

"Ahh

"So our ship ...... Can't pick us up? House asked.

Para didn't rush to answer, and adjusted the lever down slightly, "Now I can come." "A light breeze swept through everyone's faces, and something seemed to change subtly in the air, as if nothing had happened......

The teacher's face froze for a moment, and he stared at Parra's adjusted lever with suspicion, surprise, and incredulity, followed by a relieved laugh: "Hehehehe...... Ahem...... Turns out you've learned to use this......"

"I only know a little bit of the principle," Pala replied, but her eyes did not dare to look at the teacher, "but it will take time to learn completely, it may take decades, maybe hundreds of ......years" After speaking, she carefully removed her steps, moved away from the teacher again, and said in an almost pleading tone, "Teacher, can you let us know what ...... is harvesting in this process of 'harvesting'?" ”

"Para, don't be quiet when you talk to him!" Daniel reminded, and then stared at the dying teacher with fiery eyes—he was the first person here to know the truth, and he had endured it for more than half a year, and finally at this moment, he still couldn't suppress the anger in his heart.

"You ...... When hell freezes over...... ...... you know," the teacher's weak tone changed, and he began to lose his gentleness, and even a little evil, "all the fate, your descendants, your descendants, your people, your country...... In the end, the whole planet will not ...... will not escape this fate...... You - there is no future...... Hum hum ...... "The last laugh was so mad that Para even wanted to leave the room, and the others turned their faces away, even though they hated and were angry, they were still in awe of the teacher, especially "fear".

"Where the hell are you from?" Umi tried to restrain his emotions (is this uneasy?). Wrath? Or fear? "Who told you to do this?" He kept his head down, reluctant to look up in the direction of the teacher.

"Goodbye......" The teacher's tone didn't look like he was talking to them, let alone responding to the question just now. The five of them looked at each other, and finally looked at the teacher hesitantly, hoping to understand the meaning, but what they heard was-

“…… Bye...... Earth ......"

Earth? Where is the Earth? Is the Earth the teacher's hometown? ……

A barrage of questions suddenly came over the five, and they wanted to follow, but hesitated—until they heard a low rumble outside...... Then there is a slight shaking in the room...... Violent shaking!

"Earthquake?!"

The nerves that the five had just relaxed tightened again, and they didn't care about the teacher who fell to the ground, and rushed downstairs to break the door, the sunlight once again made them unable to open their eyes, but they could clearly feel the sand under their feet trembling, and the sand began to dance in a huge boom! The ten eyes that quickly adapted to the sunlight finally saw what was going on—

Quicksand poured down from the edge of a huge desert basin, like a splash, like a pour! Falling like a landslide, the sea was slamming down on them - not only in the direction in front of them, they were surrounded by quicksand waterfalls, and the piling up of quicksand was rapidly converging towards the center of the basin, ready to fill this huge basin, and the buildings and people in the center of the huge basin were about to be submerged and buried by the sand that slid down!

"How do you run this?!" Daniel shouted, his cry almost hoarse amid the loud sound of quicksand pouring down.

"What the hell is going to happen, we're going to die and we'll be buried alive......" House shouted with wide-eyed, bewildered, incoherent words.

Albert and Umi forced their composure, and the former said, "Para turns into a giant eagle, take your prince and run first!" The latter hurriedly said that he would let Para save others first, and the two sides were not in a hurry to argue, because Para was not in a good state at this time-

"I spent too much energy just now, and I can't change it now!" Para's words brought everyone to the brink of despair.

However, the most panicked House still proposed the most reasonable way to evacuate at present: "If you can't do it, go back to the house and block the door with sand, you can't get in......" and then ran back to the building, ready to close the big iron door, "Why are you stunned, come in!" Para and Daniel immediately turned to go in, but Albert and Umi turned their back on them and ran outside—one to the dew collector's shed, the other to the vegetable patch.

"That's right! Take these with you! Daniel suddenly realized, and also turned back and ran to the chicken shed. Para ran to Umi and put away the dew collector with him, and together they folded the collector and carried it on their shoulders in one go, and when they rushed out of the shed, they found that the quicksand "waterfall" was approaching! Without hesitation, the two hurriedly rushed into the building, along with Daniel and Albert - one carrying a few broiler chickens in his hand, and the other with fruits and vegetables. And House, who had been busy closing the heavy iron door, had already closed the flash door.

"Quick! Together! House reminded everyone that without waiting for a break, the five of them closed another heavy iron door, blocked the gate with the same iron latch, and pressed against the gate - the quicksand pouring down from the height hit the iron door with a rumbling roar, and the huge force knocked everyone to a stagger, and even fell to the ground, and the iron door bent slightly under the tremendous pressure, and the iron door also made a sound of metal compression...... But fortunately, this was the case, the quicksand did not pour in, and the five who had recovered did not have time to rejoice, so they rushed upstairs to close the open windows above. The only few windows were on the tower, and the five of them ran from the first floor to the top of the tower in one go, locking all the windows along the way.

At the top of the tower, Daniel poked his head out to investigate—quicksand had almost filled the basin and was flooding the floors below the top of the tower. The stone road leading to the distance has long been gone, and the chicken shed and vegetable patch have been buried deep under the quicksand.

"How's it going?" The man inside asked Daniel anxiously, but the latter couldn't describe what he saw, shocked by the speed of the quicksand, Daniel was dumbfounded, but he quickly turned his head, closed the window, and waited with the others inside for the quicksand to pour down......

……

It didn't take long for the faint light to shine on the five melancholy faces, and the cries of broiler chickens could be heard in the corridor below the tower, and they were somewhat aware that the rumbling outside had finally stopped.

"Are we buried alive?" House said in a low voice.

"No, I don't think," said Albert, suddenly with some excitement, "look, there's light in the crack of the window!" Sure enough, a glimmer of golden light passed through the gap between the wooden panels of the window, and although it was only a little, it was brighter than the oil lamp in the room!

"I'm coming!" Umi stepped forward to open the window, and "squeak" - a strong light shone in, no different from the sun on a regular day, but at this time, it lit up everyone's heart. The window was large enough to pass people, and the five of them walked out in turn......

The quicksand has been stabilized so that your feet will not sink when you step on it, and the basin has been completely filled up, and it is like the most ordinary sand in the desert, and even makes people feel that this is what it should be. The top of the tower is like an earthworm poking its head out, standing there abruptly and out of place in the desert.

"It turns out that the top of the tower is not buried." House said with a sigh of relief.

Para looked around, looked at the location of the sand-buried building, and expressed his suspicions: "It feels like this building is designed like this, it will be higher than the surrounding sand." ”

"And what's going on with this quicksand, we almost died here." Daniel asked, puzzled.

"It seems to be some kind of self-destructive, like a warship sinking itself." Umi, who is familiar with the sea and ships, explained that Daniel, Parra and Albert all agreed.

"It's good that we survived, and it seems that it is wise to hide in here." Albert shook his head as if he had never experienced the thrilling scenes.

Umi frowned and replied, "No, we are still not out of danger, our food has become a big problem!" ”

Umi's words woke up the others, although the quicksand did not flood them, it completely destroyed the food source they relied on for survival, and how many days can the food they rescued last now? When the five of them thought of this, they all fell into confusion and contemplation.

"Let's go back and sort out the resources and food we have," Para suggested, "and ask him too...... Is there anything else here that can be ......" and we all know who this "he" refers to.

There was no better choice for the time being, and the other four did as Para wanted. In a short time, the vegetables, fruits, broilers, and dew collectors that were rescued in the quicksand waterfall were all placed in different rooms. When everything was arranged, the five of them gathered again and went to the room on the second floor—

The teacher is still there - he's dead.