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When the clear water in the bag was gradually scarce, there was a sandstorm in the desert, and the sandstorm was endless, and Dole was dizzy in the sandstorm for several days, not to mention that even the horses that knew the way had lost their direction. Dole anxiously took out a compass from the package, wanting to re-determine the lower position, the pirate who sailed in the sea all day this compass is naturally a tool to carry with him, but at this juncture, this compass is like an evil spirit, no matter how he walks back and forth left and right, always only pointing in one direction, the angry Dole shook his hand and smashed it on the sand.
In any case, he had to continue to move forward, so he walked in the sandstorm again, and could not even sleep, and sat cross-legged and used the body of the horse to shield himself from the wind and sand, and slept for a while, and waited for the horse to recover his strength and move forward again.
I was dazed and helpless but saw the outline of this faint castle, although it was so far away, it was the only place that could save people's lives at the moment, and continued to move forward for more than an hour against the wind and sand, and the road ahead was no longer clear, only relying on feelings to move forward. Suddenly stepped out of the air with one foot, before he could retract it, his body leaned forward and pounced heavily, his body hung in the air with one hand still pulling the horse rope, and the horse also stepped on his front legs under the pull of Dole, and in this way, he fell into the air with the man and the horse.
The wind and sand whizzed past his ears, and before Dole could figure out the situation, his body had fallen heavily on the sand, and then he whirled around and rolled rapidly on the steep sandy slope, and when he stopped again, his eyes were golden, and his eyelids were tired and dizzy and fell into a deep sleep.
When I opened my eyes again, the sun hung over the clear blue sky. One night the sandstorm miraculously disappeared, shaking his head and shaking the sand off his face, he looked around at the horses lying beside him not far away. People and horses fell almost in the same position. Stood up and looked around, two stretching mountains were lying on the left and right, and he was in a valley of sand, looking at it and couldn't help but be afraid for a while, fortunately, this is such a high place in the desert that there is still his own life if he falls down.
And the castle disappeared into the sky, is it really an illusion? Dole was a little lost, but he couldn't stop. Lead the horse slowly in the sand valley, now the only way is to watch the starlight in the clear night sky to determine the direction of travel, today's situation should not be a sandstorm at night. Thinking about Dole's emotions, it gradually became clear again.
A group of galloping horses' hooves hurried through the desert, and the desert cavalry rushed into the desert after two or three days of lagging behind, as if guessing where Dore was going, and followed him exactly in the direction he was going. The only clue is that the elf's hometown is in the capital of the Desert Empire. Searching and tracking all the way, I finally found a lonely string of horseshoe prints on the sand. A sneer flashed between the demon cultivator's eyes, and with a wave of his hand, the horse's hooves sped along the horse's hoof prints in front of him at a more rapid speed.
When Dore was dazed in the sandstorm, the desert cavalry approached step by step with the familiarity of the terrain, the sun shining directly on the edge of the cliff, and Moxiu dismounted and looked at the disappearing footprints and horseshoe prints, stared at the deep sand valley under his feet, for a long time, and finally looked up ahead. The outline of the castle still looms large. Without the shelter of wind and sand, it is clearer.
His forehead tightened as he stared, and the demon cultivator seemed to be in deep thought, as if he was in great trouble. Then he turned and grunted at the cavalry behind him, and when the cavalrymen heard the words of the commander, they looked at the castle in the sky, and fear appeared on their faces and eyes, and no one would nod their heads in agreement. Demon Xiu yelled at the group of soldiers, apparently venting his anger, perhaps because of the authority of the commander, all of them nodded their heads in agreement, and the horses' hooves circled the cliff in front of them and continued to gallop towards the distant castle.
The valley of sand in front of him twisted and wented, and Dole walked and stopped, and before he knew it, it was dusk again, and the remnant sun hung in the sky in the west, sprinkling a touch of blood-colored red, strange red, bloody red.
Turning a corner, the eyes suddenly opened, and it was an endless emptiness, and here we reached the end of the sand valley, a few bare old trees bent with thick trunks standing in the yellow sand, stretching the branches facing the surroundings, like a strange old man with a withered back on his back, there was not a single leaf on the branch, and there was not a leaf under the tree that was withered and yellow, this was a few old trees that had long since died, leaving only a withered trunk.
The trees were dead, but the shadows of the trees were fresh enough to see the shadows of the trees in this desolate and barren land, and it must have been an oasis where water once flowed.
And that was not all, for on the bare branches stood a flock of birds, strange birds like crows, with black feathers and sharp beaks, but more than twice as large, eyes glittering with blood-red light, and a disgusting quacking. When Dole led the horse to the mouth of the sand valley, the group of strange birds fluttered their wings and turned around in unison, their blood-red eyes staring at this person and a horse, flashing with ** light.
The sound of disgust could not suppress Dole's surprise, and in the distance a huge castle towered behind the dead old trees, across the advancing desert, and it was no wonder that the outline of this castle could not be seen in the valley of sand, it was hidden in the gentle emptiness, and his shadow could only be seen from above.
Dole led the horse and spread his legs and ran towards the castle, where there was a castle, there might be a well or something, the strange bird twisted its head and its blood-red eyes did not leave the moving and running figure for a moment, when the figure of a man and a horse was about to disappear into the distance, all the strange birds spread their wings and flew towards the castle in the distance.
Dore had noticed this group of strange birds for a long time, but at the moment he didn't have the heart to deal with this group of pesky and strange beasts, let alone fear, if there was no water source in the city, he wanted to get a few to come down to drink blood to quench his thirst, shave his hair to satisfy his hunger.
Finally ran to the castle under the towering city wall more than ten zhang high, the huge wall bricks hundreds of years of wind and sand erosion under the uneven cracks, stretched out a hand between the bricks and took out a handful of yellow sand gravel, and then looked up to see the city wall is deserted and does not see a trace of life. Could it be an abandoned castle, a thought flashed through Dole's mind, looking up at the castle, even if it was dilapidated, it was shocking. Such a huge tower must have been magnificent and lively in the past, and it took an unknown amount of manpower to transport these huge wall tiles from outside this ungrown desert.
A little unwillingly, he continued to walk along the city wall. After walking for two or three miles, he finally came to one of the gates of the castle, the arched gate was empty, and the sawdust of rotten wood could be faintly seen between the bricks of the wall. Standing at the gate of Dole looking in, the first thing he saw was a large stone tablet, on the stone tablet was the three blood-red characters 'Ten Thousand Bones City', the blood-red handwriting on it seemed that the blood had not yet flowed. In the vast decay and desolation of the withered yellow, it is so terrifying.
Involuntarily walked towards the city with his feet open, and a gratuitous attraction drove him in to see what was going on, rustling. With your feet on the sand, the whole castle is covered with yellow sand, even if it is the land under your feet, bypassing the shocking stone monument. Walk in the empty streets. All the way. On both sides were ruins, rubble, and tall buildings built of boulders collapsed on the side of the street, revealing empty roofs.
The streets were as dead as empty, and there was not a single figure in sight or a trace of the smell of living things, even if it was the smell of foul rot.
Suddenly, looking around the pile of rubble, I saw a pile of white bones, the skeletons of dead people. Empty skulls, and the sight of a pile of dead man's bones in an abandoned castle, Dole didn't feel anything terrifying. The castle was supposed to be inhabited in the first place. He walked on, his horse still walking behind him.
But what he saw next made the murderous pirate boy tremble, walking through every inch of yellow sand, bypassing every broken wall, he could see skeletons and dead bones, densely piled up among the broken walls, and at most piled up like a hill. A canal around the city on the side of the street zigzagged to the very end of the castle, filling it not with yellow sand, but with the skeletons of dead men.
The eyes are full of forest white, the scalp of Dole who looks straight is numb, his eyes are green, looking up at the huge castle in front of him still can't see the edge, the collapsed large and small buildings lie in front of him, and it seems that he has not even walked to a small half of the castle after walking for a while, and this small half of the area is full of so many skeletons and bones, I don't know how many people have died in the whole castle and how many dead bones are buried, it is really worthy of the name 'City of Ten Thousand Bones'.
No more curiosity, no longer attractive, no longer wanting to explore why so many people died, and not wanting to trace the secrets hidden in it, the pace of movement finally stopped in front of a pile of skeletons, and did not want to move one step further, and when his blank eyes wandered around, he inadvertently glanced at what seemed to be a well in the distance, and his heart shook violently, holding on to the last bit of hope, and ran towards the well with his legs.
Running past the end of the street at my feet, I saw a huge square standing at my feet, the empty square covered with yellow sand could accommodate thousands of people as far as the eye could see, and in front of the square was a huge palace-like building, with a high flat roof almost level with the castle walls, and the whole castle seemed to be almost intact in front of the whole castle. The scale and momentum of this square do not seem to be weaker than the 'Holy Ancient Battlefield' in the 'City of Fire', this castle is not known to be glorious and magnificent when it was alive, but now it has been reduced to this desolate and decadent to the point of horror.
The well was at the edge of the square directly in front of his feet, and after the shock, Dole ran to the well in a few big strides, and only a rusty rocker was left at the round wellhead, and the bucket and the well rope were long gone, and his head was stretched out in front of the wellhead and looked down, and the darkness was endless. Dole turned around and picked up two pieces of rubble from a pile of rubble, hurried to the well, and threw the stone down into the well.
The gravel fell into the darkness silently, neither without the sound of surprise splashing water, nor the sound of disappointment, and Dole dropped another quick stone to add strength, perhaps because the sound was too small to be heard. It's still silent, and now Dol is really confused, is this well a bottomless pit! A whip was pulled out and wrapped around his waist, and he threw it into the well, and under the faint green light, there was a thick pile of yellow sand at the bottom of the deep well, and there were two stones on the yellow sand.
'Grandma, is there only yellow sand in this place except bones!' Dole was so angry that he scolded, and kicked twice at the mouth of the well, and when he had finished the kick, he turned his head and went out of the city, not wanting to stay in this place for a quarter of an hour.
Quack, just two steps away, there was a disgusting chirp in front of him, louder than the chirping of the dead old trees outside the city, as if it was calling for something. Looking up at the sound, I don't know when the crow-like strange birds outside the city flew into the castle and stood at the top of a collapsed wall. 'Grandma, call it a fart, Lao Tzu shaved your hair today, drank your blood, and see if you still scream. Dole was getting upset, but the strange birds came to add fuel to the fire, and scolded and picked up the whip and rushed towards the wall where the strange birds stood.
Boom, there was a slight sound in the square behind him, and the terrifying night like a dead silence stirred out a trace of startling whine, and the yellow sand strangely rose upwards to form a sharp pile of sand, not one but several. Immediately after that, several big men jumped out of the sand, their burly and solid figures were like a huge rock, not fleshy skin but musculobones condensed by yellow sand, wearing solid sand armor and holding sharp sand axes, this was actually a group of sand people, 'sand warriors'.
Several sand warriors leaped out of the sand, brandishing sand axes and charging towards Dole's back, their boulder-like figures turning into a sandstorm, their heavy footsteps clanging on the sand. Dole rushed to the top of the collapsed wall in a few big strides, and was about to leap to his feet, when several strong winds blew behind him.
The leaping figure did not stop, volleyed up in the air but half-turned in the air, the leap and spin as fast as the wind in one go, Dole's skills became more and more agile, and while spinning, his right hand waved heavily, and the 'Divine Dragon Whip' cut through the sky and slashed at an incoming force fiercely and quickly. The sandstorm of the boulder-like figure had reached Dole in the blink of an eye, and the two high-flying sand axes slashed down at the dry back, but before the sharp axes could completely cut down Dole's wind-like transformation, the lightning attack had already begun.
Crackling, the divine whip slashed at a sand axe, and at the moment of rotation, the other foot was slashed away almost at the same time, and a spinning flying leg kicked heavily at the thick arm under the sand axe, and the two attacks of the divine whip and iron leg were cast at the same time. The two Sand Warriors couldn't resist Dole's swift whip kick and thumped back, and the other three Sand Warriors behind them pounced from both sides with their sand axes held high.
The figure fell to the ground and his eyes condensed slightly, what kind of monsters are these, what kind of castle is this, and what strange things are hidden. The head is questioning, but the figure does not stop, brandishing the divine whip, and the figure once again turns into a wind that should rush towards the other three sand warriors, the right whip, the left fist, plus the flying legs, and in the thud, the three consecutive attacks like lightning are even heavier.
With a thud, the sand warriors who rushed backwards flew out and fell heavily on the sand, and the sneak attack behind them was quickly defused by Dole's backhand, and when he was about to take a closer look at what this group of boulder-like monsters was, there was the neighing of horses behind him, a terrible neighing sound. Looking back in amazement, the horse not far away fell in a pool of blood, the strange bird that was originally standing on the wall tossed black wings around the horse, and the sharp beak shell was inserted into the horse's body to suck the blood in the horse's body, even the blood that penetrated into the sand did not let go, and even the sand pecked into the mouth, in this barren land where birds and beasts are extinct, it seems that it has not been sucked such a delicacy for a long time. (To be continued......)