Chapter 371: Strange Desert
The old man smiled slightly, nodded without hesitation and said, "Of course there is, there are a lot of people in that batch, I can't send them once, and I ran twice." ”
My eyes lit up, and I asked, "Do you know who they are?" ”
"I didn't ask about this, as a ferryman, I can't ask people casually, as long as I send people over, my task will be completed." The old man said with a smile.
I couldn't help but be a little disappointed, and said that this small boat can seat at least eight or nine people, and the other party can't sit in a boat, and it seems that there are a lot of people here.
Just when I was disappointed, Shen Qin continued to ask, "Then can you tell us about the other party's appearance characteristics and so on?" ”
Yes, snake fans don't know, but looks, height, men and women, it's always information at a glance, right?
The old man didn't seem to care about so many of our questions, and said with a smile: "Of course this is okay, you may meet them in the past, why should I hide it?" ”
After speaking, he told the characteristics of the passengers of the previous batch of two ships.
Among those people, there seem to be four leaders, three men and one woman, two men are middle-aged, the remaining one man and one woman are very young, and the rest should be retinues and the like, arranged by those four people to take the first boat first.
As soon as the old man finished speaking, I already had a rough guess in my heart, so I turned to Su Che and said, "Do you think they will be Yun Letian's father and daughter and Duan Ran's father and son?" ”
Su Che frowned and thought about it, saying that the characteristics of what the old man said were very similar, but there was still a key person who was not there, didn't Dongfang Li say that he felt the breath of the demon king?
That's right, there doesn't seem to be a demon king among those four people.
My mind is like a mess right now, and I think it's surprisingly weird, if it's really the four people I guessed, what are these guys doing here?
We stood by the lake and whispered, and the old man sat on the bow of the boat smiling and looking at us, and as long as we didn't ask questions, he wouldn't say anything to us.
After the discussion, I decided to take a risk, first believing that this old man was not lying to us, he was the ferryman here, who was responsible for taking people to the other side.
As long as this assumption is true, it should be easy to find Yun Lotian after the past.
Now that we're all five of us, it might not be a problem to deal with the four of them, and if it were possible, it would be a major blow to the mysterious Senate to eliminate these people here!
So it's worth the risk.
The so-called suspicious people don't need to be used, and the use of people is not suspicious, since it was decided, I left behind my complicated thoughts and jumped on the boat first.
I weighed at least nearly 100 pounds, but I didn't expect that as soon as I got on the boat, it was like a feather falling on the boat, and the hull didn't even move.
The old man was still smiling, watching us jump up one by one, and when the last Shen Qin came up, he shook the oars and said, "Sit tight, let's go!" ”
With just a slight support, the boat jumped out like an arrow, and the two waves of water that had been rowed quickly merged behind the boat.
Everyone looked curiously at the strange lake around them, from the ground there was no strong feeling on the water, and when we approached the glowing points of light underwater, we realized that those things were moving.
"Old man, what's this glowing thing in the water?" I asked, confused.
The old man shook the oars, but as if he didn't exert any strength, he said with a smile: "That is the obsession left after death, the deeper the obsession, the stronger the light." ”
It's so mysterious, can people's obsessions still shine here?
"Can't this obsession be resolved? Do you want to stay here forever? I asked.
The old man shook his head and said of course not, the existence of this sea of oblivion is to dissolve those obsessions, you must know that if the obsession is too deep, it will cause a big disaster.
Causing a big disaster?
Seeing that I was puzzled, the old man said: "In life, there will always be desires, once the desires are not satisfied, there will be obsessions, this obsession will not free oneself, and it will endanger the lives of others, greed, obsession, resentment, the more it accumulates, the deeper the obsession." ”
I nodded, understanding what the old man meant, but I was puzzled, is this really hell? How do you feel like this is a good place to listen to him?
As if he had seen through my thoughts, he smiled and said, "The so-called hell depends on who it is addressed to, for the wicked it is hell, but for the good people, it is heaven." ”
It's so profound, I can't understand the mystery in these words at all, the sudden appearance of this old man in such a strange place is already confusing in itself, and his words are so deep, I have to respectfully say to him: "Thank you for your old guidance." ”
The old man smiled and said that if you want to thank yourself, if the gold at the entrance of the cave made you greedy, now you are already at the bottom of the sea.
I was shocked, and then I realized that those things were just used to test people's hearts, but luckily none of us moved.
The boat walked on the water like an arrow, and we realized how big this sea of oblivion is, and we also found that the number of obsessions in the sea is beyond our imagination.
We didn't say anything more to the old man for the rest of the day, until we reached the other side, and we thanked him when we got off the boat.
"You're welcome, it's my duty, goodbye." The old man said very politely.
Duty, looking at the old man turning the bow of the boat without looking back, a trace of inexplicable ripples appeared in my heart.
The old man has lived on this sea for thousands of years, and how many people has he crossed back and forth? Is that passage we came down the only way to get here?
Apparently not, it could be one of a thousand paths, and this place that only exists in legends suddenly appeared in front of us, and we didn't know anything about it, and that feeling of confusion made me feel a little lost.
When I turned my head to look, there was a gentle slope more than two meters high in front of me, and the real hell was on top of that gentle slope, and everyone looked at each other silently, and walked over together.
"How can a living person be allowed to come in this place? I really don't understand. Lin Yue muttered quietly as he walked.
It's not just her, all of us don't understand this question, but we're all here anyway, maybe the confusion can be solved in a while, right?
Everyone went up the gentle slope, and after standing still, they saw that what appeared in front of them was an endless yellow sand!
There is no longer the top of the cave above, and instead there is no end to the sky, but there is light cast down in the gray sky, so we can see the scenery in the distance.
It felt like stepping into a different world, a desolate, quiet world.
"Look, there are footprints here!" Lin Yue pointed ahead and said.
Everyone hurriedly stepped forward and found a series of messy footprints stretching into the distance on the yellow sand, and there were too many people in front of them, so the sand was trampled in a mess.
"Let's keep up, I don't know how far the other party has gone, let's speed up." I turned to the crowd and said.
The sand was so soft under our feet that we didn't know how long it would take us to catch up because there was no end in sight, but luckily the temperature was pleasant and there was no strong sunlight to keep us from getting seriously dehydrated as we walked.
The footprints stretched into the distance, and we couldn't keep up with them slowly, so we had to speed up in order to find the person who came in first as quickly as possible.
I sped up at my speed, but I had to wait a few hundred meters for everyone, or they wouldn't allow me to do that.
I walked for an hour, and there was still yellow sand ahead, as if this place had no edge at all, and I suddenly felt a fear in my heart, will we be trapped here forever?
No way!
I'm sure the old man won't lie to us.
"Let's stop and rest, ginger tea, your speed is fast, but every step we take requires physical strength, we need to discuss the countermeasures." Shen Qin said suddenly.
I nodded, sat down cross-legged on the yellow sand like everyone else, and said, "We seem to have walked into a strange circle, this place is different from the outside world, and it doesn't seem right to always go this way." ”
"yes, I thought so too, but it's a pity that the old man didn't tell us some key information." Shen Qin's previous momentum had disappeared, replaced by a hint of frustration.
I looked at everyone's expressions, and was surprised to find that everyone's emotions didn't seem to be very high, and I couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with you?" ”
Everyone ignored me and looked down listlessly.
Su Che suddenly said to me: "This place may affect our mood, you wear a mask, and you will be less affected. ”
Is there such a thing?
I turned my head to look at Lin Yue, who had always had a lively personality, and she was also sitting there expressionlessly, so I quickly asked, "Yue Yue, why are you unhappy?" Not like that when you got off the boat? ”
Lin Yue glanced up at me and said with a bitter face: "I feel so bored, I don't want to go forward anymore." ”
Only then did I realize the seriousness of the matter, Lin Yue, who had always been optimistic, had become like this, this desert really had an impact on us!
Thinking of this, I quickly stood up, glanced left and right, and found that there was nothing on the yellow sand except for the footprints of us and those in front of me, and my brows suddenly furrowed!
There's no wind in this place, and there's no extreme weather like sandstorms, so those footprints won't just disappear.
Strangely enough, the ferryman told us that he had lived in the Forgotten Sea for 7,000 years, ferrying countless people, but why had no footprints remained?
Even if the boarding location is different, the disembarkation location should be the same, right?
There are at least hundreds of millions of people who have walked through these yellow sands, why haven't they left a single footprint?
"I think I understand what's going on." I muttered.
But everyone didn't seem to react, except for Su Che, no one wanted to ask me what I understood, which made my heart sink even more!
"What did you find?" Su Che raised his head and asked.