During the long trek, I thought about it for a while, and suddenly I felt cold all over my body, as if someone had poured cold water on my head, and I felt like I had malaria when I was illuminated by the fierce sun. I don't have much time left, and counting today, which has just begun, I only have three days to look for jade. If you can't find a ...... within these three days Then I must not have made it out of the desert alive, I always felt a dull pain in my chest, and when I checked it this morning, I found that the skin was red and swollen.

We hurried along the way, thinking that eight or nine days was enough time to go back and forth, but now it seems that we have not touched the veil of the desert hinterland. I don't know whether to blame my strange physique or the bizarre events and conspiracies that keep popping up along the way, I can only sigh and ask Katsuko complainingly: "Didn't you say that you can find herbs in three or five days, why haven't I seen the shadow yet?" ”

Katsuko spread his hands and said as he limped forward, "I didn't expect the desert to be so unpeaceful, and so many monsters that I had never heard of came out. Besides, I've only heard of it, and I don't know where the specific herbs are, so I can only take you to the hinterland to find them. ”

Zhang Siyuan looked around and said, "We should have entered the hinterland by now, shouldn't we stop and dig up the soil every time we take a step?" ”

Katsuko was noncommittal about his slightly mocking words, and quickened his pace to himself. I looked at the vast sea of sand, I really didn't know what to do, and asked Uncle Lu and Hu San with a glimmer of hope: "Do you have any specific directions?" ”

Uncle Lu looked embarrassed and shook his head: "This thing is extremely difficult to find, I have only seen a photo of it once, and Shengzi and the fourth child both said that if this kind of grass grows underneath, there will be a slight bulge on the ground." ”

I had no choice but to suppress my eagerness and trepidation, and pretend to be calm as I walked. During a short break, I leaned over and nervously asked, "Do you feel anything unusual in your wrist?" ”

He rolled up his sleeves to show me, and countless swollen bags appeared on his wrists as if they had been bitten by insects, and his skin was red as if it was about to drip blood, which made people tremble when they saw it. My heart was hurting and I couldn't speak, feeling the swelling in my chest. He looked at my pale face and trembling cheeks, and squeezed out a reluctant smile: "It's just a grass, it's easy to find, we will definitely be able to get out alive." ”

He said words of encouragement, but I didn't feel confidence. Hu San's eyes were not firm, and his tone was a little hesitant, I didn't want to think about it anymore, so I reluctantly patted him on the shoulder, stood up and took two steps and made one step, took out the momentum of the sprint, and did my best to speed up the pace.

Needless to say, I was dizzy from the scorching heat and the high-intensity march, and even faintly nauseated. I don't have a good heart, wouldn't it be a great waste to spit out the dry food I just ate, turned my head to find Wang Linshuo to relieve the heat, and when I just put it in my mouth and didn't swallow it, I didn't know what I tripped under my feet, and I fell to the ground suddenly. This time I was really unlucky, not only was my eyes and knees hurt sharply from the sand, but my teeth also gave my tongue a hard blow, and the smell of blood and bitter medicine disgusted my facial features wrinkled together.

Wang Zhen hurriedly helped me up and said with a smile: "Why do you always wrestle for no reason-" Before he finished speaking, his face suddenly changed, and his tone changed a little surprised, "How can there be a corpse here?" ”

I looked down and saw that at some point a miserable white foot stretched out of the yellow sand, and I may have been tripped and gnawed on the mud by this benevolent brother just now. There are so many strange things that we have seen along the way, and a corpse can no longer make us pale and our lips tremble. Wang Zhen squatted down curiously, grabbed his feet and dragged out a person I had never seen before.

Before I could take a closer look, I heard Hu San and Uncle Lu behind me screaming in unison, and they each squeezed forward from both sides. One turned pale in shock, while the other raised his hand and put it down. Wang Linshuo and I glanced at each other, knowing that this person was probably an important person in coral.

Wang Zhen was about to open his mouth to ask, but was startled by a high-decibel scream behind him. Katsuko, who was timidly standing behind us and playing with his fingers, rushed over desperately like a cannonball, pointing to the corpse's somewhat decomposed face and exclaiming, "He, he's a member of the archaeological team!" ”

Zhang Siyuan frowned and said suspiciously: "Archaeological team? ”

Katsuko's face was like gold paper, and his body trembled slightly as if it had been electrified. It took him a long time to squeeze out a sentence: "My brother followed an archaeological team into the desert in order to be a guide." I've seen this guy, he's one of the archaeological teams! ”

I couldn't help but sigh, and the words that Katsuko said when he first entered the desert sounded in my ears: My brother followed an archaeological team to find ancient scriptures into the desert, but he didn't come back for a long time, and then a companion finally returned to the village, but he had gone crazy. I shuddered and leaned in to see the body.

The desert was extremely dry and the temperature was abnormal, so the body was not highly decomposed, and I could clearly see his facial features. He has triangular eyes, a short, collapsed nose, thin lips, and a mean figure that he doesn't mess with. Hu San's face became longer and longer, he trembled and stuffed a handful of tobacco into his mouth, and said vaguely: "There is no archaeological team, it's all an excuse." Most of this group of people came to find jade. ”

Uncle Lu took a deep breath and added: "This person used to work with Hu San in his early years, and he loved to play tricks behind the enemy's back. People like the head of the snake can die in the desert, which shows how difficult the road ahead is. ”

I can't help but shudder, if this person is really as powerful as Uncle Lu said, then his death in the sea of sand will be the worst outcome for us. Among us, Hu San, Uncle Lu and Wang Zhen are more combative, but they are still 108,000 miles away from a heavily armed fake archaeological team. Uncle Lu continued to dig the sand to see if there were any other clues, and Hu San grabbed Shengzi and asked some details of the archaeological team. But Katsuko seemed to be overly frightened, no matter what he asked, he shook his head in panic, and the angry Hu San could only scold.

A miserable white hand bent like a chicken claw was picked up by Uncle Lu, he gasped, and was about to grab the corpse's wrist to grab him out, but a black image flashed over like lightning, grabbed the corpse's wrist first, knelt on the ground, his chest rose and fell violently, but he couldn't shed tears.

Katsuko frantically brushed away the thick yellow sand, and the sight in front of me made me take a few steps backwards and gasp. Wang Zhen blurted out a foul word and said in surprise: "Where is his head?" ”

I looked at the headless male corpse in front of me, and suddenly remembered what Katsuko had told me that night in a trembling voice about what he had experienced. I looked closely, and sure enough, there were some crystal clear, reddish jade fragments around my neck. Countless question marks popped up in my head, how did Katsuko's brother's corpse come here? Could it be that someone is lying?

Wang Linshuo touched my shoulder and asked me with his eyes. I shook my head in confusion, stepped forward and squatted down, glanced at Katsuko with a panicked face with a slight threat, patted his shoulder and whispered as a comforter: "You can't be lying, aren't your brother's corpse in the middle of the desert?" ”

He shook his head desperately, suddenly stood up, and screamed, "I'm not lying! I did see him there, and I really don't know why I came here! ”

After he finished shouting, he suddenly fell straight down, looking at his brother's corpse in grief and panic. I thought to myself, this child must have been frightened and almost collapsed, how could a person who grew up in a small village have heard of such a strange thing? The others looked at me and then at Shengzi in puzzlement, Zhang Siyuan frowned and said, "What did you tell him?" ”

Although I promised Katsuko to keep it a secret, I can't hide it from everyone if I don't say it at this time. I patted him sympathetically on the shoulder, and said that it was no secret anyway, and I couldn't help my brother, so I poured out all the things he told me that night.

After hearing this, Hu San nodded and said, "You have wronged others, this corpse was carried by my colleague." ”

I was surprised, he glanced at Katsuko with tears hanging on his cheeks and continued: "His head is gone, and there is jade around his neck, this method is familiar to me, he hopes to resurrect people temporarily through jade." ”

Wang Linshuo scolded a dirty word, and said in amazement: "Can it really be resurrected?" ”

Hu San snorted: "Yes, yes, but the steps are very troublesome, and they can only wake him up for a day and a night." I don't know why he took him deep into the desert, I don't know why he wanted to resurrect him, or where the jade on his body came from. But I only know one thing, he died before he could make it. If you look around, you might be able to find the head of Katsuko's brother. ”

Zhang Siyuan glanced at the jade fragments on the broken neck of the corpse, pulled his face and asked, "Wouldn't this be the jade we were looking for?" ”

Uncle Lu and Hu San shook their heads in unison: "Absolutely impossible." ”