Home is always a haven of shelter, no matter where you go, you will eventually return home, but home is only a haven of shelter, and young and sturdy ships can only stop for a short time and have to travel far away.

Sha Feng didn't stay at home for a few days, less than three days, maybe he left without even healing his injuries, Bao'er cried twice, once in Uncle Sha's arms, and once in Ye Bai's arms.

When Ye Bai came back with Sha Feng on his back that day, Uncle Sha was waiting for the two of them in the place where he used to wait for Sha Feng, and Bao'er cried when he saw Ye Bai's drooping arms and Sha Feng on his back.

Ye Bai remembered very well what Uncle Sha had asked, 'I'm back.' And Sha Feng still came back with the same word, 'Hmm.' ’

And when he left today, Uncle Sha said again: "Come back early next time." Another faint 'um' Sha Feng left without even turning around, leaving only his father who was still watching his son leave under the sunset, and Ye Bai who was holding Bao'er crying.

'Come back, um' The brief conversation Uncle Sha and Sha Feng didn't say it a few times after that, but Ye Bai was deeply impressed, and even in the end, he stood at the peak of the world, and the peak of the universe would often remember.

Sha Feng walks in the evening, and he can return to the battle line before the sun comes out tomorrow, and if he wants to cross the desert after the dark age, he will basically choose to travel at night, if the battle line is not breached, the desert at night is the safest, there are no mutant beasts that can threaten humans, and the temperature and mirage during the day can often make people lost.

Ye Bai sat on the bed and recalled what Sha Feng said to himself, Sha Feng had already determined that he had attribute power in his body, but he was imprisoned in his body, this time Sha Feng would go back and ask the tenth master, what was going on in this situation, if he could release the power of attributes, it would definitely be a foundation level.

Bao'er was already asleep, next to Ye Bai, there were sobs from time to time between his snorts, Ye Bai was lying on the kang, staring at the corner of the table in the night, I don't know what he was thinking, he wanted this kind of life before, Xiang and Mu'er, his mother found a place where only them lived in peace, but now he was eager to become stronger and eager to fight.

"Brother Ye Bai, who is Mu'er?"

Sandbag looked at Ye Bai in his quilt and tears continued to flow from the corners of his eyes, and Sandbag's big round eyes couldn't see the sadness when Sha Feng left yesterday.

"Why does Brother Ye Bai love to cry as much as Bao'er? You see Bao'er is not crying today, do you want Bao'er to tell her brother a story about a flying castle? Sandbag stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of Ye Bai's eyes.

"Mu'er, my brother misses you so much." For a moment, the sandbag turned into Ye Mu, just like when Mu'er cried when she was a child, he wiped the tears from the corners of Ye Mu's eyes with his fingers.

"Brother Ye Bai?" Sandbag looked at Ye Bai, who had been stunned in front of him, and kept waving in front of Ye Bai.

Suddenly, Ye Bai blinked his eyes, looked at the sandbag and smiled, and said: "Bao'er, get up quickly, it's almost time to dry your butt for recuperation, will we go to the desert to find sand lotus later?" ”

Ye Bai got up and opened the window, letting the cool air that existed for a while in the desert waft in.

"What, Bao'er got up earlier than Brother Ye Bai, but I just look at Brother Ye Bai again." Sandbag wrapped his head in a red happy word, quickly put on his clothes and stood beside Ye Bai, learning from Ye Bai to look into the depths of the desert.

"Mu'er? I dreamed again, but I didn't remember anything. "There is nothing but yellow sand in the depths of the desert, and there is nothing to see, but I have been dreaming of Mu'er for the past few nights, and I am pretending not to care, knowing that Mu'er may have had an accident.

A cool breeze blew on his face, Ye Bai clenched his fists, picked up the sandbag and walked out, while Uncle Sha had already gotten up and was waiting for them.

"Get up, let's go, the hoe is there, let's see if we can come back in time for the heat." Uncle Sha's voice sounded a little hoarse, he shouldn't have slept well last night, after all, going to the front line means fighting to the death, no one can guarantee that he will come back every time, I can only hope that the agreement will always be there.

"Bao'er, you're so big, do you still want someone to hold you? I don't know if my big brother has an arm injury? ”

Before Ye Bai turned around, he heard Uncle Sha's voice again, and then the sandbag went down from Ye Bai's arms.

The desert is just like Sha Feng said, after the Dark Age, there is almost nothing to see except sand, and the mutant beasts have become smaller than before the Dark Age, in order to survive in the deeper sand.

On the contrary, the plants of the pre-Dark Age began to grow upwards and can be seen sometimes in the desert.

According to Uncle Sha, the root system of the sand root can penetrate more than ten meters deep into the desert, and only less than one meter above the ground is exposed.

However, the sand root is not far from the sand surface, and every time the sand root is found, the sand root can be picked several times before the sand is transferred.

"Brother Ye Bai, Bao'er found you here last time." followed the last sandbag and pointed to the shade of the sand ridge line and said to Ye Bai.

There was no trace of Ye Bai in the place where he was found, but the sandbag remembered it clearly.

"Bao'er is playing around here, and my big brother and I will go digging sand lotus first." Uncle Sha told the sandbag again, and then took Ye Bai to the location of the sand lotus.

"Alas, after this picking, it can only be picked three times at most, although the root system of the sand root is very deep and not easy to die, but this desert is not immovable, and drinking these distilled water without nutrients, what should Bao'er do when he grows up?"

Uncle Sha dug down with a hoe and was full of sand, and he couldn't see any signs of sand roots, Ye Bai on the side didn't say anything, water in the desert is really the source of life.

Ye Bai casually found a place to dig, although he only had one hand, his entry-level strength could easily dig very deep.

It didn't take a few minutes for Ye Bai to see the sand lotus root thorns that Uncle Sha said, after picking the sand root once, it could only barely grow sand root in less than two weeks, and as for the plants on the sand surface, it would take at least a month.

Ye Bai used his hand to remove the surrounding sand, and the thorns on the sand root stinged his palm from time to time, talking about the yellow vine thorns, and his hand went deep into the sand to grope for the sand root in the sand.

Until the thorns pierced his hand, Ye Bai pulled the sand root out from under the sand surface, and there was no white and flawless jade root as he imagined.

The sand root is black and yellow, and the entire surface of the sand root is covered with small black spikes, and the yellow water on the little root system left at the bottom is evaporated as soon as it drips on the sand.

These are poisonous, Sha Feng said to Ye Bai that evolutionaries can drink less than they will not be poisoned, which is like poison for ordinary people.

He knew that life in the desert was difficult, but he didn't expect that Uncle Sha would almost borrow his life from the hands of death, dig, slice, release water, and then distill it to get non-poisonous water, and if he made any mistake in this step, he would die.

Maybe Uncle Sha was an evolutionary before, but in order to let the venom erode his body step by step and turn back into an ordinary person, Ye Bai also understood why Uncle Sha didn't let Bao'er get close here.

Put the sand root in his hand in the back basket, continue to look for the sand root in the sand, and scatter the sand grains with a hoe, but there is no gain.

But Ye Bai didn't continue to dig any further, but stared at the sand grains that flew out.

"Uncle Sha, what's going on?" The grains of sand that flew out in front of them actually flew back again, and the big hole they had dug just now returned to its original state, as if someone was preventing them from digging the sand lotus.

Uncle Sha, who was still wiping the soil on the sand lotus, didn't notice this until he heard Ye Bai's voice, and the sand that had originally fallen in his hand now fell into the pit he threw out.

Uncle Sha was stunned for a moment, and then he didn't even put the sand lotus in his hand back into the back basket, so he turned to the direction of the sun and quickly knelt down.

"Ye Bai, kneel down quickly and greet You Long." As soon as Uncle Sha finished speaking, he shouted loudly in the direction of Shabao: "Bao'er, kneel down quickly, don't look at anything, and don't look up when you hear anything." ”

"Got it, grandpa." After hearing what Uncle Sha said, he quickly closed his eyes and knelt on the spot, and at the same time made a wish in his heart to let his mother come back soon.

"What?" Ye Bai was a little confused, You Long? What's going on?

"Get down on your knees, I'll talk about it later." Uncle Sha knelt in the direction of Ye Bai and walked away, forcibly pressing Ye Bai to the ground.

The sand on the ground didn't react when it came back to its place, and everything seemed to be back until it arrived.

Suddenly, the sand in the entire desert shook, and Uncle Sha and Ye Bai both looked in the direction of the sun.

"It's coming. Uncle Sha muttered with chapped lips, then closed his eyes and began to mutter.

However, Ye Bai next to him did not close his eyes, his eyes looked straight at the depths of the desert under the sun, and all the sand, whether it was the sand ridgeline, the sand dunes, or the sand that could be called the sea, began to gather towards the sky.

In the depths of the desert, the grains of sand flew inexplicably towards the sky, just like a yellow pillar of sand suddenly appeared in the desert, getting higher and higher and gradually obscuring the sky and the sun.

Immediately after that, the pillar of sand that was enough to penetrate the heavens and the earth began to bend down and swoop down into the desert and fall, blending into the desert, but in a few seconds it burst out of the desert again, rushing into the sky, and then fell back into the desert, walking out into the depths of the desert, looking like a day of desert dragon swimming from a distance.

Uncle Sha opened his eyes, everything around him returned to calm, and said to Ye Bai: "It's amazing, the sand can become like this, I was much more surprised than you when I saw this phenomenon for the first time when I was young." ”

"Have you ever thought this is a mutant beast?" Ye Bai asked Uncle Sha rhetorically.

Uncle Sha shook his head, picked up the hoe again, and began to look for the sand lotus root in the sand, "Mutant beast? However, there are mutant beasts that do not hurt people, and here we all take the dragon as a symbol of blessing, praying for rain and peace. ”

"But what does the mutant beast have to do with us? We just want to live simply. ”

Uncle Sha dug out a sand lotus root and put it in the back basket.

He straightened up and looked at the blue sky and said, "Hope is better than nothing." ”