Chapter Forty-Nine: A Strange Desert
Before being devoured by the black worms, the old man left behind black and white talismans to set up a barrier for us, blocking the huge army that wanted to attack. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
This move also left him with no way out, and the two worlds were completely cut off.
As soon as we step through that barrier, we will end up like him.
I came to my senses, took a deep breath, retracted my sadness, and looked at the still heavy faces of the bandits and Ah Gong, helpless.
"Let's go, the road has to go on"
Ah Gong is quite cheerful, he can control his emotions, so he will hide all the surface, he pulled the bandit and lifted him up.
"Why...... Why ......" The bandit was a little delirious, his whole body was very soft, as if the bone frame was scattered, and Ah Gong easily got him to his feet.
Seeing that he was still like this, as if he was in a broken mood, Ah Gong didn't show much, just put his hand on his shoulder and dragged him around and walked towards the oasis.
The lotus tiger is gone, the old man is gone, our group, there are only three left, in the end the next road can go on, I have too many questions in my heart, since they have all come here, it is not a way to retreat, and if you show weakness at this moment, isn't it worthy of the old man's hard work?
I followed, trying to comfort the bandit, but he pushed me away and told me to stay away from him.
I had no choice but to retreat behind them, as something invisible, without saying a word.
This green forest road is not difficult to walk, but the foot is flat and not rough at all.
The bright sky was blocked after a while, and since we set out, we rarely saw the harsh sunlight, as if these green forests were born to block the light.
I wiped my eyes, squinted and looked ahead, I couldn't see the bottom in the distance, I didn't know how long the road was, there were not many big rocks along the way, the road was neatly paved, and I didn't have to worry about not finding the road and falling, but I had to stay in a place without light for such a long time, and walk aimlessly, it was really uncomfortable.
The only thing left was the sound of us walking, and a few bird chirpings were heard from time to time, which seemed to be a common expression in this forest.
I picked a leaf with my hand, and found that the gum that flowed out was actually some black thick water, so I hurriedly shook my hand, and said to myself, there is really a ghost in this place.
The trees that used to provide shade have now become markers to block the sun.
And after a long period of vision, you will have a strong reaction when you see the sun again.
We walked for almost a long time before we passed through this green forest, and since there was no timekeeping thing, and we could not tell the time by looking at the weather, we could only feel that our hands and feet were sore, and we could only distinguish that we saw a piece of light.
"Why is this kind of place again?"
Ah Gong muttered, which caught my attention.
Because of the glare of the sun, it took me a while to get a better view of what was in front of me.
Desert, desert again, but not endless, just this desert, in the shape of an elliptical dome structure surrounded by green forests, the remnants of rock formations form a blue mountain range, the middle terrain is very flat, there is not much undulation.
It was as if a big circle was wrapped around a small circle, and the desert was enclosed in it.
If you look closely, it looks like a big eye, and the small circle in the middle is the eyeball.
This does not mean that it is small, but it is breathtaking, because although you can see its outline, it takes a lot of foot force to get through.
And after crossing that long road before, I was already too tired to have any strength, and now if I continue to pass, I am afraid that I will fall into it with exhaustion, which is not the result I want to see.
"Let's stop and rest for a while," I said to them, coughing lightly.
Maybe the bandit was also tired of walking, so he shook off Ah Gong's hand without any scruples, walked to the side and lay on the ground alone, with his back to us.
Ah Gong looked at him, didn't know what to do, and sat on the side, took out something to eat.
Like a middleman, I had to find a shady place and carefully consider the next plan.
Obviously, without the backbone of the old man, we are back to the old way of coming out of the village.
Ah Gong and the bandits are still sluggish, and the crowd is gone, as if only I can barely hold up, but they obviously can't listen to what I say.
The loss of the old man was too much of a blow for them.
I calculated that if the old man was right, then we would have to move forward.
The green forests on both sides are close together, and there is no other passage to walk, and we only need to take a few more steps ahead to enter the border of the desert, as for whether it will pass through it or whether it is the destination, I do not know, and I will have to cheer up Ah Gong.
Obviously, it can help us find our target instead of the old man.
I'm going to take a rest and wait until the evening to talk to Ah Gong about my next decision, after all, the sun is scorching now, it's too sunny, and the temperature in the desert is high, so I really don't have the strength to go on.
I took off my coat and put it on my body, I wanted to close my eyes and recuperate, for fear that something unexpected would happen, but as soon as I closed my eyes, tiredness would follow, my eyelids began to fight, and soon I was confused, and after a while, I fell into a dream.
When I woke up, it was already dark, I was woken up by the cold, I felt that the clothes on my body were not enough, and the weather here was also strange, I turned my head to look at Ah Gong and the bandits, and found that they didn't know when they had stood up, pointing to the big desert and saying something.
I rubbed my eyes and walked up, and found excitement in their eyes, looking at the desert in the distance, not paying the slightest attention to me approaching.
I took a look and saw that the desert was different from the daytime, but a different scene.
During the day, the desert is very clear, as the sunlight makes its outline and oval structure visible.
But now it was night, and without the sun's rays, the desert and some of the remaining rock formations were no longer visible, as if they had disappeared from them.
And the eyes that were like a desert, the eyeballs inside actually began to launch a golden-purple Buddha light, sometimes slowly dimmed, sometimes bright and shining, it was an extremely rare scenery, I was stunned when I saw it.
I don't know if this place is a mature desert, but it seems a little strange to be able to form a large area in the oasis, after all, the land here is moist and the groundwater is abundant, so it will not cause such a large desert, and it will still glow inside.
I touched my chin, this is really a strange thing, but looking at the performance of Ah Gong and the bandits, it seems that it is not strange.
I'm going to pluck up the courage to ask them what the reason is.