The climate in the desert is very harsh, and the temperature drops to a very low level near dawn, but it is hot in the middle of the day. It had just entered early summer, and in the early hours of the morning, the cold sand under his body froze Shen Yuan from sleep.

After opening his eyes and combing his mood, Shen Yuan got up and stretched. It was found that the rest of the people had already climbed up and were taking care of their luggage. Ava and Ushio were sitting and chatting softly, while Knife Boy was preparing food by the fire. Liu Wen was holding a sleeping child、、、、、、 wait! Child? Where did the children come from?

Shen Yuan looked around, but he didn't find the mysterious guide! Shen Yuan hurriedly walked over, Liu Wen was sure that Shen Yuan got up, and said hello with a smile: "Get up?" ”

Shen Yuan asked strangely, "Where did this half-grown child come from?" ”

Liu Wen turned sideways slightly, and let Shen Yuan look at the sleeping child's face、、、 "Batu? Shen Yuan was taken aback! Isn't this the kid who lives with Grandma on the edge of the desert outside the Heavenly Ghost Cave? Most likely, it was the child of the guide and his sister 、、、、、、!

Liu Wen said softly: "The child was brought back by the guide in the middle of the night, and the cuttlefish may have been attacked, so the guide asked me to help take care of the child." Then he went out and never came back. ”

Shen Yuan frowned, squatted opposite the child, and checked the child's injured right leg. I found that the injury had deteriorated a little, the injury on the calf was not serious, and it had stabilized after Liu Wen's treatment, but now the entire calf has become red and swollen like a carrot!

Liu Wen frowned and said, "There should be no major problem, the child has no fever and no inflammation." It's just that I've been drugged and can wake up. ”

Shen Yuan nodded: "Do you have any news about the cuttlefish?" What does the guide say? ”

Liu Wen shook his head: "He just brought this child back and told me that our manpower outside may have been hijacked by a group of people from overseas." Let's see for ourselves! Go or stay、、、 as long as we take good care of his children, he will help us. ”

Ava saw Shen Yuan talking to Liu Wen at this time, stood up and walked to the opposite side of Shen Yuan. He smiled and said, "The situation has changed, do you have any plans?" ”

Shen Yuan simply sat on the blanket where Liu Wen was sitting and said, "No matter what intentions you and the Second Elder ambush and what means they use, we are all invited by you to come and help you enter the Heavenly Ghost Cave!" Now that my people are being held hostage, you and the second elder have to give me an explanation, this is your business! I don't want to go into the goddamn cave of the gods! ”

Ava frowned and replied, "Yes! But you can't back down, you promised the second elder to help her break the magic circle outside the Heavenly Ghost Cave! As long as you cooperate, we will do our best to help you solve your troubles! ”

"And! I need to know now what the hell was with that gang of men who attacked my men and those who led the way! And what do they want to do? ”

Ava thought for a moment and said, "My relationship with the second elder is more like that of a mercenary, she promised to save my sister, and I will help her with things. I'm not from the Xuanyi Sect、、、、、、"

"I'm not interested in whether you're from the Xuanyi Sect or not, and I now want to know your purpose and who this group of people you killed halfway through! What are you here for? Shen Yuan was furious!

Liu Wen looked at the angry Shen Yuan, stretched out his hand and patted Shen Yuan's back, Shen Yuan was unconscious!

Ava squatted down, his dark skin reflected his facial features, which were more three-dimensional than those of the Central Plains, and there was no expression on it. looked at Shen Yuan's eyes and said, "Whether you believe it or not, I only know that Xuanyi Sect is not a monolith!" Just as you won't trust the Five Immortals Sect Fox Immortal Family unconditionally, the Second Elder also has many enemies within the Xuanyi Sect. According to what the guide said, the people who suddenly killed this time are likely to be from overseas Xuanyimen, and you have to admit that you are indeed a lonely and unheard person! You have no idea how terrifying the Celestial Ghost Cave really is! And how tempting! ”

Shen Yuan wanted to turn his face, but he forced his anger and motioned Ava to continue!

Ava pursed the corners of his lips: "Less acting, I know you want to know more." But I don't know much, I can only tell you that the second elder needs to enter the Heavenly Ghost Cave because she wants to live! A lot of people want to live! There are not many ways in this world to prolong people's lives, but the Heavenly Ghost Cave is one 、、、、、、of them! ”

Shen Yuan said disdainfully: "Immortal、、、、、、 are you disgusting?" A weird desert, chaotic magnetic fields, and some inexplicable plant creatures are driving you people crazy? Who has ever seen immortality? Who? ”

Without waiting for Ava to speak, Liu Wen behind Shen Yuan whispered, "What about the Fox Immortal Family? ”

Shen Yuan was stunned for a moment, and still said stiffly: "Who has seen the fox fairy family?" It is also possible that Hu Xiaomei herself has schizophrenia! ”

Ava couldn't help but sneer, "The Second Elder has always thought that those lamas of the Fox Immortal Family and Minzhulin have mistaken you!" Saying that they are treating you as a dish is really blind, and sooner or later you will have to be killed! Seems to make some sense、、、、、、"

Shen Yuan slapped the blanket under his leg angrily and jumped up suddenly: "What nonsense!" Now either make it clear to Lao Tzu, or Lao Tzu immediately goes to war with those people to save his brother! You go and drill that bullshit hole with the second elder yourself, Lao Tzu will not accompany you, and you will take revenge on Lao Tzu! ”

"Brother Shen! Don't be impulsive、、、、、、" Liu Wen hurriedly persuaded Shen Yuan.

Ava stood up and looked at Shen Yuan and said, "Whatever! Like you said, you're the second elder, please come and help! Maybe the second elder forced you to obey after he arrested Liu Wen, but now, if you think about it、、、、、、 don't you yourself have a little curiosity about the Heavenly Ghost Cave? Even if you're not curious, what about that obsession in your heart? ”

Shen Yuan raised his head and looked at Ava: "It seems that you know me very well!" What are my obsessions? Can I take such a big risk in this place? ”

Ava looked at Shen Yuan carefully: "Now a fool can see that the Heavenly Ghost Cave has interests, and there are great benefits!" Even if you don't want to do that, can't you trade it for what you want? ”

Shen Yuan chuckled.

Ava said carefully: "For example, take back the corpse of your ancestor、、、、、、 such as restore the supremacy of your family inheritance、、、、、、 such as 、、、"

Shen Yuan looked at Ava coldly: "You mean to say that my grandfather's body is in the hands of this group of people who came back from Xuanmen from overseas?" ”

Ava shook his head: "The forces of the Xuanyi Sect on the mainland are all intertwined, and they are even more mysterious overseas, how can I know which group of forces your ancestor's body is?" You have to ask the Second Elder about this! ”

Shen Yuan thought for a while: "Then this is used as bait?" Pretty low-level, right? ”

Ava laughed, "Don't think too much of yourself, if you think that your ancestor's body is bait, then you don't have the weight of this bait now!" I'll tell you one more privately, it's just for my own deal with the Second Elder to be completed smoothly, you listen!

The body of your ancestor is indeed in the hands of the Xuanyi Sect, and it seems that there is a big secret associated with it, and even the second elder has no way of knowing. If you want to achieve your goal, then you have to go into this troubled water! If you don't have enough weight yourself, then you don't even have the qualifications to know the secret! Where to go is up to you, I'll set off to the Heavenly Ghost Cave in twenty minutes, and the guide won't come back. He seems to have been restrained by that group of people from overseas, and now he can't be trusted! Put Liu Wen here to 'take care' of this child, so that we can be less wary of the variable of the guide! Do you understand? ”

Liu Wen frowned and said, "Do you want me to treat this child as a human resource?" In this desert, do you think it is wise to contain and threaten this guide? ”

Ava looked at Liu Wen strangely: "Don't you understand what I said to 'take care'?" This kid has a broken leg, so is it possible that he will go on an adventure with us? ”

Shen Yuan asked, "Did the guide say when he would come back?" ”

Liu Wen shook his head: "No, he just handed over the child to me and left, before leaving, he said what happened to these outsiders." He saw that there were four more people being controlled by those people, and I thought it should be the four of them. After all, the cuttlefish and the children were left on the edge of the desert. ”

Shen Yuan looked at Ava with a complicated expression: "Listen, no matter how you guess my thoughts, I still value my own people the most." I'll save my manpower, and we can continue to work together, but I don't know which side I'll be on when the time comes! You've thought about it before you decide! ”

Ava smiled and turned to leave, saying as he went, "Whatever! At least now we are not enemies. Twenty minutes later we departed! ”

Looking at Ava's back, Shen Yuan gritted his teeth angrily for a while.

Liu Wen pulled Shen Yuan's clothes, Shen Yuan sat down, and then beckoned to the knife boy who was preparing food. Dao Zi picked up two portions of food and walked over quickly, putting the food in the hands of Shen Yuan and Liu Wen.

Shen Yuan carefully discussed the next step with Dao Zai and Liu Wen, according to Shen Yuan's meaning, if this matter is not done well, there will be a Five Immortal Sect that is eyeing each other. The fox fairy family seems to have been brewing something big! I'm fed up with the calculation of being put in front of others as a shield and living signboard, this time, no matter who is involved, Shen Yuan doesn't plan to interfere, and the first priority when he arrives at the Heavenly Ghost Cave is to find out whether the cuttlefish is in the hands of that gang of Xuanmen! If they catch you, save them first, and then leave this place right away! It is best to take Liu Wen to withdraw from the mainland immediately and go to Nanyang Dama, where the outer gate is located, to avoid the limelight、、、、、、

More than 100 kilometers away, on the Gobi Desert, in the middle of several military tents with camouflage patterns on the earthy yellow sand, several men and women were discussing something. The leader was a man in his thirties, with a square face, small eyes, and a faint beard. The whole person looks extremely capable.

The other four people, two men and two women, were all in their twenties and at most in their thirties. A simple map was placed on the marching table in front of the five people、、、、、、 and the man at the head said, "All right! Quiet down、This time all the guests have arrived! The main guests are the second son of the North American An family, the second elder who has been jumping up and down, and the fox fairy family of the Five Immortal Sect. The last guide of the Ghost Cave Clan still needs to beware, although there have been many fewer alienated sandworms in this desert over the years, most of our precision positioning weapons cannot be used here. So try to avoid them as much as possible! ”

One of the youngest-looking lads pouted and said, "Blow them all up!" Notification of an exercise, a concentrated destruction of missiles and shells that are about to expire 、、、、、、"

"Shut up!" Another fair-faced woman in her twenties interrupted him coldly. "It's your turn to have such a simple solution? The Tenki Cave inside is a place that science can't explain! A single landmark point in the Heavenly Ghost Cave can affect the stability of the magnetic field that distorts hundreds of nearly 1,000 square kilometers, who knows what is in the depths of the Heavenly Ghost Cave? Ancestors have explored for thousands of years, and they also know a little bit about what a little child has to say! Honestly listen to the instructions of the section chief. ”

"Oh! Okay, well, I'll listen to the elder brother! Don't yell at me, sister、、、" said a kid in his early twenties with a hippie smile.

The man he called the senior brother glared at him fiercely, and after seeing this kid's sister, she couldn't help but pinch this kid's waist fiercely! The kid bared his teeth and didn't dare to speak anymore、、、、、、

At this time, another slightly older short-haired woman pulled her hair, pointed to the map and looked at the section chief and said, "Boss, we know that it is unreasonable to calculate the ghost desert according to the map, and the space magnetic field here is extremely distorted. It has even affected the light and the ionosphere in the sky! Satellites can't accurately measure it, and the actual area of the Ghost Desert is much larger than what is shown on the map, at least three times more! This map 、、、、、、"

"Yilin, this map was given to me by my master's bus, and it took more than ten years of hard work and a lot of money to get it when my master was alive. The red lines crisscrossing this are the burrows that sandworms use to travel quickly underneath the sand! Over the years, the Onifang Desert has become smaller, and some of the caves have been covered by the sand dunes outside. Although the burrows outside are mostly dug and clogged by sandworms, there will definitely be a chance for us to dive in. When the time comes, we will wait for the undercover agents buried inside the An family to cause civil strife between the Second Elder and the Fang family, and the guide will definitely stop it, and at that time, the guide will lead most of the sandworms to deter them! That's when we'll make a move. ”

The man frowned and said, "What these people are fighting for is interests, power, and those illusory things!" We want peace in the land and we want them to obey our rules! Can't mess around、、、 let me reiterate our mission this time! First: Fight to kill all the sandworms before the last Onifang Clan guide dies! The ghost guide's control over the sandworm is getting weaker and weaker, once the guide dies or the sandworm escapes out of control to the outside of the ghost desert, the harm and panic caused are extremely serious! These uncontrollable species must be removed! ”

"Is it just us and these soldiers outside?" The woman named Yilin wondered.

The section chief nodded and smiled: "That's all!" Their special vehicles have the latest homing guided weapons, powerful enough to destroy sandworms within a kilometer of more than five meters of sand. Of course、、、 all creatures in the area will probably be killed!

The second task 、、、、、、 capture the second elder and the second son of the North American family! If you encounter stubborn resistance, you will be killed! ”

The woman named Yilin nodded. The frizzy boy struck each other excitedly, looking eager to try, causing his sister to glare at him fiercely before giving up!

"As for the sect master of the Fox Immortal Family and the Shen Family、、、、、、 the man who was called the section chief pondered for a while, and said: "The Fox Immortal Family doesn't have to pay attention to it for the time being, I believe she won't tear her face with us, that Shen Yuan 、、、、、、 if he comes into contact with it, he can deter it, whether it is subjective or forced, he still has a part in the mess of the Dahei Temple!" Anyone who sees him doesn't have to take the initiative to attack him, give him a monitoring order in the name of our nine branches, and see how he reacts! If his intentions are biased towards Xuanyi or North America, he can be arrested after being injured! If necessary、、、、、、 try not to hurt him, because the Tibetan sect behind him is deeply involved with us, and we have to take into account some of their positions. Try to deter the Shen family as much as possible! ”

The rest nodded, and the young man had a look of disdain on his face. It seems that he looks a little contemptuous of the section chief's senior brother's response to Shen Yuan and his party. But under the deterrence of my sister, I didn't dare to say anything.

"I'm going to decide on a course of action now! I'm the chief officer of the Nine Branches Action Team this time! Yi Lin is the vice captain and the pioneer, and you and I are exploring the way forward five hundred meters in front of the team with the three small soldiers. The four locators of Lily of the Valley and Plum are in charge of protecting the special forces, and we will leave one person waiting for you after we explore the sandworm's nest, and then install a quantum beacon to guide the subsequent firepower. The three of us alternate forward, and the two of you must ensure the safety and effective follow-up of the beacon installation personnel! Got it? The chief of the Nine Branches roared!

"Got it!" The other four people perked up and replied loudly!

"Good! Go back and check and pack your gear, and set off in 10 minutes! The man waved his hand, ignored the others, folded the map, took out six more maps, and handed them to the vice-captain Yilin. Let them ensure that everyone has one copy, plus the beacon outside, and the personnel can also get two copies.

The young man who left the tent and called Li Zi followed his sister and muttered in a low voice, "Sister! Look at the senior brother, since we entered the Nine Branches, we have been an official all day long! It's a love to answer us, you see! He left you and ran with that deputy leader of Yilin, and you were in love with him in vain、、、、、、"

"You shut my mouth! If it weren't for you, the oil bottle, how could the old lady pick up leftovers with you at the back of the line every time! When will you stop talking such reckless nonsense? It's not in Jungnan Mountain! There is no grandfather to protect you, do you know that recklessness is going to die? Li Linglan jumped up and grabbed her younger brother Lizi's ear and scolded!