"Let's find a house first, at least the kind that can live in people."

Yunxiao nodded.

"The sand here is too windy, we have to find a higher place, otherwise we may be buried in the yellow sand in the middle of the night."

Yunxiao led Anxia towards the depths of the town, and they were all immersed in a strange atmosphere, unaware of the danger around them.

"What are you going to do if your brother is really resurrected?"

"I," Anxia looked down and thought for a moment, "I'll repay you." ”

"That's not what I'm talking about."

Yunxiao shook his head, "Your brother slaughtered Kunlun, there must be a battle between me and him." ”

Anxia suddenly stopped and looked at the clouds.

"Can you not fight?"

Yunxiao turned his head sideways to avoid An Xia's eyes, he didn't dare to look at her directly, he was afraid that he would break the oath he had made in Kunlun.

"I can't choose, and I don't have the right to choose, just like your brother must slaughter Kunlun, maybe there is no right or wrong in many things, but what is determined cannot be changed."

An Xia nodded slightly, she understood what Yunxiao meant, they liked each other, but they couldn't change Kunlun's past of killing her family, and they couldn't change the fact that his brother slaughtered Kunlun.

"If that day really comes, then I won't help anyone, if you kill my brother, I will fight with you, if my brother kills you, then I will ......"

"What will happen to you?"

An Xia suddenly fell silent, she originally wanted to say that if her brother killed Yunxiao, then she would be martyred with Yunxiao, but in this kind of words, An Xia would rather hide it in her heart than tell Yunxiao that she knew that she was in love with someone she shouldn't love.

On both sides of the road were heavy boulders, which made it clear that they were not originally here, and their irregular edges and erosion by the wind and sand suggested that they should have come from some desolate ridge.

Some of the white bones were piled up around several boulders, the skeletons were not scattered, and it looked like they were dying peacefully.

"There should be a water source near the town."

Yunxiao looked up at the sky, such a scorching sun, if there was really a source of water here, it should also be somewhere extremely hidden.

"There's a building in front of it, and it looks pretty well preserved."

An Xia followed Yunxiao's finger and looked, not far away was a building similar to an ancestral hall, its door was open, and there was not a grain of sand on the steps of the door, it should have just been swept away.

"Hello, anyone?"

Yunxiao poked his head inside and asked.

"There should be someone here!" Anxia reached out and touched the gate, there was no dust on it, it was completely different from the buildings in the town the day before yesterday.

"Shall we go in and have a look?"

An Xia shook her head slightly.

"Wouldn't it seem that we were too rude to go in like this?"

"But we've already said hello, but they haven't responded to us."

Anxia pondered for a moment, then plucked up the courage to pull Yunxiao inside.

"Both!"

An old woman with a disheveled hair suddenly came out of the back room.

"I was taking care of my husband's spiritual position just now, and I didn't hear the greetings from the two of them, I'm really embarrassed."

Yunxiao's eyes widened, and Anxia tightly pulled the corner of Yunxiao's clothes.

"Don't be nervous, I'm not a ghost, I'm the spirit woman in the town, in charge of tidying up the ancestral hall, the people in the town were infected with strange diseases and died, so I hid in the ancestral hall alone and survived."

"Didn't they get killed by the great beasts of the Barbarian Border?"

Lingpo shook her head, "Where are there any big beasts, two young men came to the town a year ago, they brought a monkey, that monkey is very powerful, it will breathe fire, the people in the town have not seen it, so let those two young people take the fire monkey around to perform." After a few days of performances, they left, and then some patients appeared one after another, and the mayor suspected that the two outsiders had brought the contagious disease, so he looked for them everywhere. ”

"Did you find that?" Yunxiao looked at Lingpo and asked.

"The people were found, but they refused to die, and the young men of the town, in a moment of anger, burned them to death with a fire."

An Xia's eyebrows tightened, she looked up at the spirit woman and asked, "Did they find the fire monkey used in the show?" ”

The spirit woman shook her head, and staggered towards the courtyard alone, on crutches.

"The two young men said that they had never been to Phantom Sand Town, let alone seen any fire monkeys, but the people of the town could see clearly that they were the ones who came to the town to perform."

"Could it be that someone is impersonating them?"

"No," the Spirit Woman shook her head, "Phantom Sand Town is forbidden, all things with illusions can't enter the town, they can come in, and they have been in the town for days, they must not be outsiders pretending." ”

"Then how could they not admit it?"

Yunxiao looked at Lingpo suspiciously, although her appearance was strange, but her voice was very friendly, Anxia and Yunxiao walked towards her slowly.

Lingpo stood up suddenly, and staggered back.

"Don't come near me, I've got that disease too, I'm afraid I'll infect you."

"Can the mother-in-law tell us where there is a water source nearby? We ran out of water, and there was really no way to get in. ”

Lingpo pointed into the distance, and then said: "You go all the way from the door, you will see a cave, the water source of Phantom Sand Town is in the cave, but recently the cave seems to have been occupied by some beast, I have been there several times, but it has blocked the entrance of the cave. ”

Yunxiao got up and looked at An Xia, and the two of them glanced at each other.

"Okay, thank you, mother-in-law, the two of us will go and have a look, and if we can drive away the demon beast, I will bring you some water back."

"No need," the spirit woman waved her hand, "you better go quickly, this place has become very evil now, I can't walk anymore, old woman, you are still young, don't lose your life here in vain." ”

"Thank you, mother-in-law, for reminding me."

Anxia and Yunxiao left the ancestral hall, and according to the direction the old woman said, they soon came to the cave.

"It's dark here, how are we going to get in?"

Yunxiao looked around, then picked up the white bones on the ground and said, "We can make a torch out of these." ”

"With the bones of these dead men? Not so good. ”

"What are you afraid of, they are all dead, just if they have done good deeds after they die, I think if they can defeat the demon beasts, I don't think their spirits in the sky will blame us."

"I hope so." Anxia clasped her hands together and bowed her head to say a few words silently. It was a spell to commemorate the ancestors of the wasteland, and Yunxiao couldn't understand it, so he had to stand aside in a daze, waiting for Anxia to end.

"Alright, now you can get started."

Yunxiao picked up the white bones on the ground, smashed them with large stones, and then tore a corner from his clothes, wrapping those broken bones in his clothes and beating them repeatedly.

Soon, the bones were knocked into powder, Lin Xuan drenched it with the only water, the powder of the bones quickly condensed in this weather, and with the glue that Yunxiao brought from the human world, a flammable torch was quickly ready.

"I didn't expect you to be quite strong in hands-on ability."

"It's okay, I was left alone in the back mountain of Kunlun by Shizun since I was a child, and I often have to solve some problems by myself."

An Xia looked at the clouds with some pity.

"Then it's not easy for you, alone, not even a friend."

"No," Yunxiao shook his head, "I have a lot of good friends, monkeys on the back mountain, and a few white cranes, I play with them every day, and they like me." ”

"Monkeys? Siberian crane? Anxia looked at the clouds with some doubts, "How do you play with them, can they understand what you say?" ”

Yunxiao looked into the distance, as if reminiscing about his wonderful childhood, "Sometimes, they are better than people, they are simpler than people, and even more spiritual than people." ”

"What spirituality can animals have?"

An Xia muttered in a low voice, Yunxiao lowered his head and smiled, "You haven't gotten along with them, of course you don't know, and then you go to Kunlun with me in the future, and I'll take you to them." ”

Yunxiao paused suddenly, "It's just that I don't know if they're still alive or not, I hope your brother hasn't killed them all." ”

An Xia looked at the clouds, and didn't know what to say for a while, no matter who was right or wrong, but it was a bit of a sin to slaughter one side like this.

"I'm sorry."

Anxia said in a low voice.

"It's none of your business." Yunxiao lit the torch and cautiously glanced into the depths of the cavern.

"How?"

"Looks like you'll have to go in to find out what's inside."

Anxia stood at the entrance of the cave, lingering.

"Otherwise, let's wait for the monk to come back."

"It's okay, it's just that it's getting dark, and if we can't get any more water, I'm afraid we'll be hungry when the monk comes back."

An Xia swallowed her saliva, thinking that the monk would inevitably bring back some wild things, but if there was no water to drink, then how should they cook these delicacies, after hesitating for a while, An Xia still decided to follow Yunxiao in to have a look.

The entrance to the dark cave was very large, and the entrance was very damp, and it was obvious that there should be the water source that Anxia wanted.

Yunxiao lit the torch made by himself, bone meal has a strong flammability, and the bright fire light quickly illuminated most of the cave, Yunxiao looked at it, the cave was very large, the ground was paved with some neat stone slabs, and the cave rock walls on both sides depicted some orcs when they sacrificed.

Yunxiao took a closer look, and in the corner of the cave wall, there were traces of sharp claw scratching, but it was not very obvious.

"There should be a dark river in here." An Xia listened carefully with his ears sideways, and the sound of gurgling water was clear in his ears.

"It seems that the spirit woman did not deceive us, there is indeed a guy hiding here."

Yunxiao pulled out his sword, and he couldn't relax in the slightest until he didn't know what level his opponent was.

"Shall we go in then?"

An Xia looked nervously at the sky.

"Don't worry, it shouldn't be a big power, so far if it doesn't make a move, it must be going to attack us."

Yunxiao put away the sword in his hand, leaned into An Xia's ear and whispered, "Relax, we have to lure it out." ”

Anxia nodded, pretending to be relaxed and walking behind Yunxiao, and they continued to walk deeper into the cave with torches. Suddenly, there was the sound of stones falling into the water from ahead.

"It's warning us." Yunxiao smiled sideways, then took out a pack of bone meal that he had prepared from behind him, sprinkled it in the air, and ignited it instantly when it encountered an open flame, Anxia hid behind Yunxiao, the fire completely illuminated the cave, and in a remote corner, Yunxiao finally saw clearly the monster that Lingpo said.

It was a monkey with a human face, and he seemed to be terrified, hiding in a corner and shivering, and from time to time he let out a low roar.

"What kind of monster is this?"

An Xia's eyebrows tightened, "Water and Fire Monkey!" ”

She had seen this guy in an ancient book.

"What is a fire and water monkey?"

An Xia's eyebrows tightened, "I should have thought of it when Lingpo talked about the fire monkey, this kind of water and fire monkey is a creature that can enter and leave the ancient border at will, they usually have a male and a female, one water and one fire, and when they go to the desert, they will look for water everywhere, and then take it for themselves." ”

"And what about the other fire monkeys?"

An Xia shook his head suspiciously, and then said: "The plague in the town must be related to them, arrest it, interrogate it carefully, and you will definitely be able to ask for some results." ”

Yunxiao nodded, a sharp sword had already flown out, and the water monkey hiding in the corner saw that the situation was not right, and took off with one foot, dodged Yunxiao's flying sword, and ran out.

"Grab it." Yunxiao threw down the torch and hurriedly chased him out, Anxia followed, and the two almost collided together.