Somewhere in the vast sea of sand, there is a canyon more than two miles long, and the rocks on both sides block the scorching sun, allowing the people of the valley to enjoy the rare shade. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

There is only an entrance to the canyon and no exit, and as you walk along the rugged road, it gradually becomes more crowded.

There is a spring in the deepest part, and the water that flows out of it gathers into a large pool, surrounded by greenery and all kinds of strange plants.

The inhabitants are a group of wanderers who have moved from afar, and when they discover the spring, they are overjoyed... In the cruel desert, where there is water, you can live.

They built their dwellings out of rudimentary materials or simply dug caves in the canyon to live in, slowly forming a nameless village.

There are about 230 people in the village, and only men and women who can work, as well as children who are pinned on hope, are eligible to live in the village. Once the villagers here are old and weak, they will consciously leave the village and go into the sand sea to end their lives...

Near the canyon is the habitat of mutant sandworms, which are the main rations of the sandworms, and a sandworm can remove more than two or three hundred catties of white meat. In addition, there is a layer of fat on the skin of the sandworm, which can be scraped off to boil oil, and the remaining skin is still good leather.

But the mutant sandworm is extremely ferocious, huge in size, at least five or six meters long, and can weigh more than two tons.

Luckily, sandworms are only nocturnal and will hide in the sand during the day to rest, giving them a chance to hunt and kill sandworms, but even then people often die in the hunt.

Adults are in charge of hunting, and children are not idle, catching lizards and spiders in the sand as a supplementary ration.

There is food and water in the canyon, but there is a lack of salt necessary for human beings! You can only rely on past merchants to exchange sandworm skins for salt.

But the long-overdue merchants were nowhere to be seen, and the villagers of the canyon could only hold a meeting to discuss the way out.

The strongest hunter in the village, Nukuro, stood up and shouted, "We must go out and find salt!" Can't sit still! The reserves in the village are almost empty, so it's better to fight than to die! ”

His opinion caused a buzz of discussion, and few people agreed with him.

"It's so risky, who knew there was salt there! Can you guarantee that you will find salt when you go out? ”

"Don't look for salt, but take your life. And we're all out looking for salt, who's going to hunt? Do you want the little ones to go!? ”

"If salt were so easy to find, those salt dogs wouldn't be so arrogant! Nukuro, I think you're naïve. ”

Nukuro stiffened his neck and argued, "You have to try! The dry season is almost over, and the traveling merchants born of sandworms can't even see a shadow! I don't think they will come, you think about the hottest dry season in Huangsha Hanhai, is it possible for them to come? ”

Everyone was silent for a while, and someone whispered: "What happened to the traveling merchants, they should have come early in previous years, do they think our sandworm skin is not good?" ”

The person next to him immediately retorted to him: "Impossible, a complete sandworm skin is only exchanged for two bags of salt, what a cost-effective business!" ”

Suddenly, someone lamented, "Alas... Maybe it's a black sandstorm. ”

The black sandstorm is the most terrible natural disaster in the sand sea, and unlike ordinary sandstorms, the black sandstorm will carry far more radiation dust than usual, or even hundreds of times, and once it is stained, it is more painful than death.

Everyone's faces couldn't help but change drastically, the black sandstorm came and went without a trace, who couldn't guarantee that it wouldn't be encountered, if the traveling merchant encountered...

Enraged by their weakness, he shouted, "It's worth hanging your head down! It's still not a man, touch your eggs and show some courage! Find salt! As long as we have salt, we can live! ”

Zari, who was sitting in the chief, coughed, stood up and said to him, "Nukuro, I understand your thoughts. But we don't have the capital to take risks. ”

Angry Kuro's expression darkened, even Daddy Zari refused to support me? He sat down dejectedly and sighed.

Then Zari slowly announced: "Everyone knows the situation in the village, and there is not much salt. I decided to collect sandworm blood, with adults drinking blood and children eating salt. ”

Sandworm blood!?

"Daddy Zari, drinking sandworm blood will mutate, and it will rot in the stomach in two or three years at most, and life is better than death."

"Daddy, think again..."

"Is there a way? I'm in my thirties, and it's enough for sandworm blood, so I agree. ”

"Oh yes... The children have to be kept alive. ”

Zari sighed secretly in his heart and said, "Adults drink sandworm blood, and children eat salt, so it's decided." ”

After the meeting ended, Nukuro followed after Zari and argued with him, but he still couldn't change his decision.

Suddenly, a child's voice came from the gate of the village: "Ah, Dad! Daddy Zari is coming! Come and see what we caught! ”

I saw Nukuro's son, Xiaoshi, and five or six children of about the same age, standing at the door and waving excitedly at him.

Nukuro and Zari walked over and found a dying swarthy man lying behind them.

"It's a fugitive!?"

The sharp-eyed Nukuro saw at a glance the rope loop around the man's neck, which was undoubtedly a sign of a slave.

Xiao Shi immediately stood up and invited the merit: "We're amazing!" I was the first to catch it on the sand dunes to the west! At first, he wanted to resist, but I kicked him over. ”

Zari squatted on the ground, opened his teeth and looked at it, measured his heartbeat and breathing, and lamented, "It's a pity that I'm too weak to work..."

Xiao Shi's eyes suddenly lit up, and his saliva sucked: "Is that something you can share and eat..."

When Nukuro heard his words, he turned his head with a straight face and asked, "Did you do it on purpose!?" Yes? Eat and eat, you will know how to eat, and how good multiple slaves are, you will know how to eat! Worthless guy! ”

The child immediately began to argue.

"No, that's what he is." "yes, at first I thought it was a dead man. "I didn't hit him hard, who is he so weak, he deserves to be eaten." ”

Zari was even more pity, reluctant to touch his body, and said to himself: "It's a pity, it would have been nice to catch it earlier, good slave, this arm and thigh, can do a lot of work, now I can only eat it..."

"Ahh This is..."Zari's face changed dramatically when he saw the brand on the man's arm, and he shouted in horror: "Dune brand!" He's a slave of the Yellow Sand Gang!? ”

As soon as the onlookers heard the Huangsha Gang, they all gasped for air, and their hearts swelled.

The convulsive nail-like self-muttering: The Yellow Sand Gang... They are chasing... It's over, it's over...

A few of them even fell to the ground with their feet weakened, shivering.