I thought to myself that this was a scruple that the wall had ears, and when I listened carefully, I saw a slight snoring coming from the tent under the moonlight, so I pulled Katsuko aside, looked around and whispered, "You whisper to me, what happened?" ”

He bit his lip, his eyes were rolling around in his sockets, and he said fearfully: "I don't know why, I'm always a little afraid of the little guy named Hu San in your team, and I also think Uncle Lu is a little vicious, and I don't want to talk to them more." In the whole team, I only think that you and Zhang Siyuan are easier to talk to, and they are also good-looking. All I want to tell you about this is that you won't give away secrets, will you? ”

I said in my heart, few people praise me so much, it seems that this kid's vision is quite poisonous. I couldn't help but feel a little proud, I couldn't help but smile, my eyes softened, and I looked at him with a little encouragement: "They are actually easy to talk to, but their faces and usual actions are a little fierce." You name it, I won't let them know. ”

The muscles on Katsuko's face twitched uneasily a few times, her expression changed instantly, and she said in a low voice: "I think my brother's death is very wrong, he was killed by someone." ”

I shook my head and said, "You didn't see the body, how can you be sure that he's dead, and that he was killed?" ”

Katsuko took a step back in horror, looked around, and said nervously with wide eyes: "Actually, I have seen his corpse, there are too many people during the day, I don't want to go into details, lie to them." ”

I was shocked and urged him to elaborate. Katsuko lowered her voice and said, "One evening, I was stumbling and suddenly tripping. I got up and saw that something seemed to bulge out of the sand beneath my feet. I crouched down to dig in the dirt, and a withered human hand appeared in front of me. I sat on the ground in fright, wishing it was my brother's stone head but I didn't want to see it with my own eyes. I shuddered and dug it out, and Venus appeared in front of my eyes, and I almost fainted. ”

I looked at him worriedly, Katsuko's face turned pale, her lips trembled, and it took a long time to squeeze out a sentence: "That person is indeed my brother, but I can't see his head ......"

Before he could finish speaking, he crouched on the ground and began to cry bitterly, his shoulders shaking violently. Although I was very surprised, I did not think it was a strange thing to see a headless corpse here, I sighed and comforted: "Your brother must have been a thief or some kind of monster, don't be sad, go back and I will give you more pension and build him a tomb for clothes." ”

Katsuko's eyes were red, and he nodded with great grief, twitching his nose fiercely and said, "His corpse is very wrong." He suddenly raised his head and stared at me, his red eyes revealing a hint of weirdness, "There are a lot of small pieces of jade in the truncated part of his neck, and I suspect it has something to do with the piece of jade you always talked about along the way." ”

As if I had been struck by a thunderbolt, I stood in place, my ears buzzing, and my mind involuntarily appeared the head of the person in the cabinet in the cabinet that Wang Linshuo told me about what he experienced when he was young, and at the same time, I don't know whose voice echoed in my ears: jade can bring people back to life.

I suddenly began to believe in Wang Linshuo's weird story, maybe what he said really happened. Katsuko's eyes were blank, her body trembled slightly, and her face was like earth, as if she had been scared out of her soul. I was surprised and frightened, and was about to grab him and ask him carefully, when I suddenly heard the zipper of the tent behind me groan, and Wang Zhen poked out with sleepy eyes.

When he saw me, he was very surprised, his eyes wandered away from me and Katsuko, and asked, "Why didn't you sleep?" ”

I turned around to block Katsuko, who still hadn't recovered, suppressed the uneasiness in my heart and smiled, "I don't know why, I can't sleep again, and the quality of sleep has always been poor lately." ”

He glanced worriedly at the dark circles under my eyes and sighed, "If you can't sleep, don't sleep, stay vigil with me, I'll light a cigarette for you." ”

Without saying a word, Katsuko stooped over and snuck past me, quickly burrowing into the tent. Wang Zhen looked at his back and said curiously, "What did you talk to about this kid just now?" ”

I prevaricated: "He cried to me that he couldn't find his brother, and that the desert was not what he thought, and that he thought Hu San and Uncle Lu were very fierce." ”

Wang Zhen coughed: "The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is ugly." ”

I don't know what's going on, I only talked to him about the work of a cigarette, and sleepiness involuntarily hit me. I kept fighting my upper and lower eyelids, yawning and yawning, I couldn't stand it anymore, threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it a few times and hurriedly said, "I'm going to sleep for a while, it's time for me to keep vigil and remember to call me." ”

Wang Zhen smiled: "I think you are just trying to deceive me of a Marlboro, and you also said that you can't sleep, isn't this yawning tears and nose flying together." ”

When I woke up again, it was already dawn, Zhang Siyuan was packing up the tent with Wang Linshuo, and when he saw me rubbing my eyes and sitting up, he said: "Why did you sleep at this time again, I remember that you are on the last shift." ”

I suddenly woke up and looked at Wang Zhen embarrassedly, and he grabbed the words: "He didn't sleep well when he took care of Uncle Lu last night, and I already had plans to help him once." ”

I smiled at him, looked around and still couldn't see Uncle Lu, and wondered, "Where did Uncle Lu go?" Is he better? ”

Wang Linshuo said: "This morning, his fever has subsided, and he has woken up, but he looks a little weak." He saw that our water was already in a hurry, so he pulled Katsuko to look for water together. I persuaded him several times to let me go for him, but he didn't listen, this stubborn temper is really a bit similar to Zhang Xuan. ”

I breathed a sigh of relief and said, "He is like this, and important things can only be relieved if you do them yourself." ”

It didn't take long for Katsuko and Uncle Lu to come back depressed and tired, and the kettle in their hands was still empty. As soon as I saw Uncle Lu's stubble-covered face, I remembered what happened last night, but I didn't say anything, just walked over and held him and asked, "Didn't you find water?" ”

He sighed and gasped, "We went around the neighborhood and found nothing. The days after that will be really difficult. ”

I didn't want to think that I really had to drink my own excrement, so I hurriedly digressed the subject: "Maybe in a moment there will be a heavy rainstorm to nourish our parched bodies." ”

Shengzi and Wang Linshuo glanced at me at the same time, and Lao Wang said disdainfully: "Do you think it's possible to rain here?" ”

Before leaving, Katsuko took advantage of no one's attention and quickly threw me a warning look. I knew he reminded me not to tell anyone about last night, and nodded slightly.

It wasn't until two or three o'clock in the afternoon that I had a brief time to catch my breath. My throat felt like it was on fire, so tired and hot that I could barely speak, and I just held the kettle and took the pitiful little water into my mouth. And Zhang Siyuan is even more miserable, he usually has to drink a lot of water when he sweats, but under such difficult conditions at this moment, he can only look at the dry kettle, and the whole person is like a stranded fish, about to suffocate.

Wang Zhen wiped his dark face, put his hand into the sand in boredom, and sighed: "I really wish there was groundwater hidden under the desert, so I have to dig it through with great effort...... What is it? ”

His complexion changed suddenly, and with one hand he pulled out a small, white, stubby grass with stubby leaves standing tenaciously from the sand. The roots of the grass had grains of sand, and I wondered, "How can there be ......grass in the desert?"

Before I could finish my words, I was interrupted by the surprise screams of Hu San and Uncle Lu. They threw their backpacks on the ground and threw themselves at each other, holding the grass with trembling hands, their faces overflowing with ecstasy. My heart jumped violently, my mouth became dry and bitter, my legs went limp, and I asked in disbelief, "Could it be that this is the herb we are looking for?" ”

The two men didn't speak, but the expressions on their faces answered me clearly. Wang Linshuo and I looked at each other in ecstasy, and were overwhelmed by the sudden ecstasy. Zhang Siyuan's eyes lit up, and he jumped up and said happily: "Can we go back!" ”

Uncle Lu's hands trembled, and he took the grass to Shengzi for him to identify again and again, and Shengzi stared at it again and again for a long time, and nodded firmly. We repressed our ecstasy and rummaged under the sand again, and two more identical little grasses were pulled out.

Without further ado, Uncle Lu tore up the grass and put it in the palm of my hand, so that Hu Sanyi and I could take a tree. I thought it would taste very bitter, but when I chewed it in my mouth, it had a faint grassy aroma, and a slight sweet juice flowed out, which was the second best thing I've eaten these days.

Zhang Siyuan and Wang Zhen proposed to go home after eating, but Wang Linshuo insisted on sitting here for another thirty minutes to see how the effect was. Although I was unwary of grass, in order to prevent the occurrence of one in 10,000 bad things, I still followed Lao Wang's advice and sat down on the spot to rest.

After almost an hour, Hu San and I didn't have any adverse reactions. This time, everyone had no worries, and excitedly picked up their backpacks and turned to leave. But before I had taken two steps, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my stomach as if someone had scraped and twisted with a knife.