Chapter 210: The Burning Desert (3)
It turned out that Xiong Jiandong didn't know how long before, because of the prostration of his body, he was in a state of delirium and hallucination.
He sorted out his thoughts, although he still had a faint memory of the hallucinations that appeared, but the most important thing was to think that he was in the harsh desert reality, now isolated from the world, and now he was facing an unprecedented physical and mental test.
"Only by conquering oneself can you conquer the desert!"
With this thought in his mind, he immediately got up and stood firm.
After looking at the time, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening. Xiong Jiandong didn't expect that he had been lying here for more than ten hours.
He decided that he could not stay any longer, and that he had to finish the rest of the journey to the Desert Inn by dawn.
At the beginning, Xiong Jiandong's every step could still be maintained at more than half a meter. But in the second half of the night, it becomes a small step. But he knew he couldn't rest.
Because as soon as he lies down, he will never be able to get up again.
One step, two steps, ten steps, one hundred steps. He uses the number of steps to cheer himself up, increasing perseverance and courage.
The footsteps are getting more and more staggering, and the movement of the body is getting slower and slower.
"Can't fall, can't fall! If you fall, there will be no strength to support! ”
The sun has risen very high. But Xiong Jiandong still relied on his feelings, shaking his body forward little by little. Occasionally, he would open his eyes.
Desert Inn? Desert Inn? How far away!
Several times, when he opened his eyes and looked ahead, he seemed to see a red dot moving far away.
But soon it disappears from vision again!
What is that moving red dot? Will it be a camel, or a horse? Could it be that the Desert Inn is not far away?
No, maybe it's because of the body's weakness again, and there are delirious hallucinations again.
But clearly, the red dot seemed to be drifting towards him. Ah, it was a maroon horse, and the knight on it wore not only a cloak but also a veil!
"Can't fall, can't fall!"
Xiong Jiandong muttered to himself. Finally, his eyes darkened, he whimpered with the last sentence, and his body slammed into the desert.
……
"Brother Xiong, you're awake!"
But listening to a woman's soft voice, with great surprise and concern, came to my ears.
In front of the bed, a pretty face suddenly came into view.
The straight nose bones, the firm lips, and a few subtle freckles on both sides of the nose are so soft and quiet, and so familiar.
Ah, but it turned out to be Lin Si'er, who saved him from the line of death! She, just like herself, came back from the dead!
Xiong Jiandong stretched out his hand, wanting to grab Lin Si'er and call out to her, but his chapped and numb lips didn't seem to obey.
The woman waved her hand to signal Xiong Jiandong not to speak immediately, and little by little she poured warm water into his mouth.
When he clearly saw the crown of hair on the head of the woman in front of him, as well as the fine jade hairpin inserted, Xiong Jiandong immediately came back to his senses.
took care of him at the moment, obviously it was the Miaoxin Daoist of the Jiuwei Mountain Nuwa Niangniang Temple, and it could not be Lin Si'er, who had passed away.
It's just that the looks and demeanor of the two of them are too close.
"Am I in the Desert Inn?"
Xiong Jiandong judged Miaoxin from the judgment made by scanning the sandy walls in the room, the room configuration, and the low window behind him.
"Exactly!" Miao Xin smiled, "Brother Xiong slept for a day and a night. It's noon the next day! ”
"I wonder why Daoist Miaoxin came to the Desert Inn?" Xiong Jiandong asked, "How can we meet in the desert and fortunately save me here?" ”
"The disciple was ordered by the abbot of the Snow Mountain Queen Mother Chi Daoguan Ciyi, and he waited in the desert inn for the past two days, just to pick up Brother Xiong and meet her old man!" Miao Xin said, "As for the question, why can we meet more than ten kilometers away?" Kun Dao only knows that although it is a vast desert, it also has its own destiny. Therefore, I hope that Brother Xiong does not need to ask more about this! ”
Xiong Jiandong couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this.
If it weren't for Miaoxin Daogu walking more than ten kilometers from this desert inn yesterday to find him, I am afraid that there would only be a few kilometers left, he was already exhausted at that time, and he had no strength to move forward, it would definitely be a desert of corpses.
He was about to express his infinite gratitude to Miao Xin, but he suddenly saw her jump over him in one step, and instantly jumped out of the low window behind him.
Then, I heard someone scream "oops", and in the blink of an eye, I saw Miaoxin carrying a man into the house and throwing him on the ground.
"Who are you?"
Although Miao Xin's voice is not high, it is full of sternness.
"I'm the one who lost the camel here!" The man replied with a shudder. He is not very old, and he is delicate and childish.
"Say, why are you leaning under the window eavesdropping?" Miao Xin asked again.
"It's just...... I'd like to hear if you would talk about my lost camels. The young man replied.
"Nope! You didn't lose your camel, but because a few horses ran away in the desert inn the other day. Xiong Jiandong said, "Yes, young man! You are one of Tuhan's men, and your name is Kus Tayeri! ”
Kus Tayeri's face turned pale, and he did not dare to speak out.
Because just a few days ago, he and Tuhan and his group had a brief head-on conflict with Xiong Jiandong and a few people in the desert inn for the sake of grabbing water.
Miao Xin immediately understood in her heart.
She asked Xiong Jiandong, since she already knew the details of this young man, what should she do with him now?
Xiong Jiandong replied, so he had to tie up Kus Tayeri with a rope and take him away.
However, he immediately worried: if he took such a young man with his hands and feet tied on the road, it would inevitably make other people who saw it suspicious and accidentally cause trouble.
"Kun Dao has his own way to deal with it, and he can be silenced immediately!" Miao Xin smiled.
"Please, spare me!" Kus Tayeri pleaded.
He stood behind Tuhan that day, and saw Miao Xin's sword shoot down the saber thrown at her, and he hadn't heard half a sentence under the window just now, and he was strangled by the neck when he didn't react, and he was very aware of the kung fu and agility of the woman in front of him, for fear that his life would be lost immediately.
"Don't worry," Miao Xin smiled, "Kun Dao will never hurt you!" ”
She took a step forward and poked Kus Tayeri's head lightly, and saw him slumped on the ground and rolled his eyes, unable to squeak any more.
Xiong Jiandong has only seen some acupoints in TV or martial arts novels, and he thought it was just a story made up, but he really didn't expect to see it on the spot today, Miaoxin Daogu is so stunt, it is really quite legendary.
"Brother Xiong must be hungry! I think let's go eat first, and then if you can bear it, you will set off in the afternoon to return to the Queen Mother Pond Taoist Temple. How is it? ”
Miao Xin smiled slightly, and greeted Xiong Jiandong, who had been stunned.
Lunch in southern Xinjiang is generally held after 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
During the meal, Miao Xin saw that Xiong Jiandong was extremely inconvenient to pick up the dishes and chopsticks because of the injury on his right arm, so she happily took the initiative to serve rice and vegetables for him.
Her meticulous and considerate intentions made Xiong Jiandong a little cramped and uneasy, but she had to use it silently.
——If he is Hua Nianping, he can enjoy the love paid by a woman, or when he was studying at the School of Economics of Beijing University more than ten years ago, he lived in Lin Sier's house during the winter vacation of the winter of his first love. Only in the past 20 days, Lin Si'er has been tender and sweet with him every day, and she cares for him in everything and all the time.
Miaoxin Daogu in front of her, since Jiuweishan and her first met in Qinxiangzhai, she felt that between her and Lin Si'er, the gods and behaviors of the two women were all very similar, so she left a sense of closeness in her heart at that time.
It's just that Lin Si'er and Miaoxin are really people separated by yin and yang, if they weren't reborn across the border, joined the Huang Ying Action Team of the Special Intelligence Bureau, and came to southern Xinjiang to carry out special tasks, how could they die for a lifetime, trapped in this desert and rescued by Miaoxin, and taken care of by her so carefully-
When he thought of this, he couldn't help but feel sad and sighed.
Miao Xin heard it clearly, she couldn't understand how Xiong Jiandong was still fine, how could he be sad.
"Brother Xiong, where are you uncomfortable?" She asked.
"Me?" Xiong Jiandong subconsciously covered the injured place with his hand, and said, "It's just a little painful!" ”
Although Miao Xin didn't fully believe it in her heart, she still relieved Xiong Jiandong.
She said that in fact, she noticed that his right arm was injured yesterday, and when she returned to the Taoist Temple of the Queen Mother of Snow Mountain, she would find a secret gold band-aid ointment from Ci Yi Shi Tai and apply it to his wound, and it would only take a few days to heal as before.
After lunch, the two rented a camel from the desert inn and immediately took Kus Tayeri and set off.
Kus Tayeri was dumb by Miao Xin, so he had to obey and obediently ride a camel with Xiong Jiandong.
Although he couldn't speak, he saw that Xiong Jiandong and Miaoxin had a kind attitude and had no intention of harming him, so he didn't make any trouble along the way.
Miao Xin rode on her jujube red horse, covering her whole body with a veil and cloak, majestic, as if there was a lot of wind and sand, and she couldn't help her.
Xiong Jiandong noticed that on the bag under the crotch of the jujube red horse, a brocade set about one meter long was specially hung, and Miaoxin could reach it slightly.
He expected that the brocade set must be hiding the mandarin duck double sword that Miao Xin was carrying.
Because of his concern for Kus Tayeri, who was remanded behind him, Xiong Jiandong rarely talked to Miaoxin along the way during the few hours of the desert journey.
Ahead will soon be the Pura Mosque in the town of Bazaku.
According to the agreement between Miao Xin and the owner of the desert inn, the rented camels should be returned to the old man of Akuman for storage.
Xiong Jiandong began to think about what to do with this Tuhan subordinate named Kus Tayeri.
If it was after some interrogation, Kus Tayeri would have been released, but after all, he had participated in a terrorist organization led by Tuhan; If Kus Tayeri is to be handed over to the town's police station, the reason for his arrest will have to be explained to the local police personnel, which will more or less reveal the secret plan of action that the secret intelligence has laid out beforehand.
Seeing that the Pula Mosque was in front of him, Xiong Jiandong thought about it, and it was difficult for him to come up with an appropriate way to deal with Kus Tayeri for a while.