Chapter 172: The desert sand is like snow
After nightfall, Zhuo Mingfeng leaned on the camel alone, even if the wind and dust servants looked a little pale because of excessive blood loss, they could never see weakness, and the moonlight of the desert was coldly reflected on Zhuo Mingfeng's face, which looked even more cold and resolute.
"Thank you for saving her." I walked over and said sincerely.
"I didn't save her." Zhuo Mingfeng looked up at me, and his voice was still indifferent from thousands of miles away.
"How's the wound on your hand?"
"I can't die." Zhuo Mingfeng suddenly laughed, and when he said this, he laughed very strangely.
"Zhuo Ye, although Zhihan is not good at learning and art, he can be roughly sure of the direction by the stars, we are going to Hongbai Mountain, and the direction should be in the southwest, but you are leading the way in the past few days, but you are going to the northwest." Ling Zhihan and the others walked over, and she asked tactfully. "I don't know if Zhihan is biased, I hope Zhuo Ye will mention it."
"You read that right, I'm indeed heading northwest." Zhuo Mingfeng replied lightly.
"Are you taking the wrong way?!" Tian Ji was stunned and asked loudly. "There was no supply in the first place, and we all hoped to be able to stick out of the desert, you took the wrong detour like this, and we can only have ghosts if we can get out."
"It's not the right direction to go to Hongbai Mountain, and you can't get there." The general was still very polite in front of Zhuo Mingfeng, but now he was inevitably a little anxious.
"I never said I'd take you to Red and White Mountain." Zhuo Mingfeng disagreed.
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Everyone was stunned, looking at him with a blank face, in the barren desert, it would be dangerous for us to stay for a minute longer without supplies, but I didn't expect him to take us out at all.
"That'...... So where are you taking us? Gong Jue asked in surprise.
"If you don't want to come with me, you can go by yourself." Zhuo Mingfeng turned around and closed his eyes to rest after speaking.
Tian Ji was indignant and returned to the place where we were sitting and said that he couldn't trust this person, maybe he wanted to consume us to death in the desert, and then he went to the Vientiane Shrine alone.
"Tomorrow we'll go by ourselves." Gong Jue turned around and asked Ling Zhihan. "You're sure you can tell the way."
Ling Zhihan nodded affirmatively.
"If he really wants to swallow the Vientiane Divine Palace alone, why bother so much, when he was in Lishan, he saw the mystery in the Tui Bei diagram at a glance, and he could find the Vientiane Divine Palace without us." I took a deep breath and shook my head. "I don't know what Zhuo Mingfeng wants to do, we are trapped in the desert without water, but he is different, it makes no sense for him to take us around in circles in the desert, if we die here, how long do you think he can live alone."
"Chao Ge is right, Zhuo Mingfeng is arrogant, but he is by no means a person without measure, he does things for reasons and purposes." The general rolled up his cigarette and said in a calm voice. "He left us with the truth, and he didn't need to spend his life with us."
"So what are we going to do?" Tian Ji asked.
"Zhiqiu is like this, and he can't stand the toss, follow Zhuo Mingfeng to see what he wants to do." I glanced at Ye Zhiqiu, who was sleeping next to me, and said.
Early the next morning, Zhuo Mingfeng rode a camel and continued to move forward, we made a tow bucket with a cloth bag, put the dying Ye Zhiqiu on it, and followed Zhuo Mingfeng with no bottom in his heart, Ling Zhihan told us that Zhuo Mingfeng was still moving in the northwest direction.
The unobstructed sunlight roasted the whole desert like a charcoal fire, and we breathed weakly on the camel, feeling that every breath of air into my body was burning, and I kept swallowing saliva to try to relieve the pain of lack of water, until I found that there was no more saliva, and my consciousness slowly became blurred.
It is said that when people are not conscious, they will see what they want to see the most, which seems to make sense, because I am about to see a touch of emerald green in my eyes.
I tried to open my eyes, and on the back of the swaying camel, the green gradually became clear, and in the distance below the sand dunes, a clear spring and ripples lingered, as green as jade.
The spring water is blue, like a pearl of the sand sea inlaid on the golden sand dunes, the trees around the spring are densely shaded, undulating in the wind and sand, the blue waves ripple and the water reflects the sand mountain.
I smiled a little weakly, it seems that I am not confused, I actually saw the oasis, and what is even more amazing is that I can still hear the sound of gurgling water!
"Water!" The general shouted excitedly and loudly in front.
At that moment, my wry smile froze at the corners of my mouth, and I saw the joyful cheers of the others, and they could all see the oasis and the water spring, and it seemed that this was not my hallucination.
The pheasants had rushed towards the oasis, and I still couldn't believe it, until the pheasants jumped into the pool with a plop, and the splashes fell on my face, cold and moist and comfortable for a long time, and I completely woke up.
There's an oasis here!
I'm not a lucky person, but even if I am lucky, I have no clue in the endless sea of sand, and the chances of encountering an oasis are almost zero.
I suddenly turned my head to look at Zhuo Mingfeng behind me, he was still riding on a camel without panic, there was no excitement and excitement in his expression, he was like this oasis hidden in the depths of the desert, let the feng shui rage but still calm.
Zhuo Mingfeng led us all the way to the northwest, and now I finally know why, he thought of us to this oasis.
But......
I frowned slightly, how could Zhuo Mingfeng know that there was an oasis here, it was impossible for a person who had never been here to know about it.
Unless!
Unless Zhuo Mingfeng has been here before!
At this time, he looked at me, and the kettle containing the wine was held in his hand again, and he casually raised his head to take a sip, and then with a meaningful smile on the corner of his mouth, he stretched out his hand far away and handed the flask in my direction.
Persuade you to have a glass of wine, and there is no reason to go out of Yangguan in the west.
I now understand the meaning of what he said to me at that time in Yangguan, and the west is out of Yangguan......
This is not the first time that Zhuo Mingfeng has gone out of Yangguan in the west!
The longer I know him, the more I can't see through the things hidden in him, I have always overestimated myself as a very transparent person, and I can easily see through other people's thoughts, but now I gradually realize how naïve I am.
I haven't seen through Ye Zhiqiu, who has been by my side for more than ten years, in fact, he is still completely unfamiliar, not to mention the arrogant and uninhibited Zhuo Mingfeng opposite.
The general and Ling Zhihan came over to help Ye Zhiqiu drink water, and my chaotic thoughts were interrupted, the water in the desert is more precious than any treasure, but now we can squander it unscrupulously and almost extravagantly, the field chicken floats on the water, the pleasure on his face is overflowing, and even the scorching sun seems to be warm now.
Gong Jue was busy filling the kettle with water, after all, there was still a long desert waiting for us, Ling Zhihan slowly fed the water into Ye Zhiqiu's mouth, and it didn't take long for her to finally wake up slowly.
"Am I dreaming?" Ye Zhiqiu glanced at the waterhole next to him and looked at me weakly.
Seeing that she could still speak, the heart that had been hanging finally let go, the pheasant swam to me, and before I could react, he grabbed me into the pool, and the sweet spring water poured into my mouth, and for the first time I found that the water was so delicious, and it was cool and comfortable to be soaked in the water.
"If it's a dream, I'd rather never wake up." Tian Ji smiled like a child.
I looked at Tian Ji's eyes, he understood that he would sneak over, and while the palace lord was unprepared, he also dragged him into the water, and the palace lord who was caught off guard was fluttering in the water, it turned out that he couldn't swim, looking at the palace lord's chaotic appearance, it was completely incompatible with his usual cold arrogance, and even the general and Ling Zhihan by the waterhole couldn't help laughing.
Gong Jue didn't have a chance to scold Tian Ji, he choked on saliva when he opened his mouth, I swam over and lifted him out of the water, Gong Jue was shocked and wiped a handful of water on his face, and he actually laughed after holding it for a long time.
After dark we rested next to the oasis, and the pheasants gave us the last of the dry food, which was our last food, and we don't know how long it would take to get out of the desert, but with water we could at least last three days.
I looked up and saw Zhuo Mingfeng sitting alone on the hill in the distance, the general asked me to bring him the dry food, and when I walked in, I saw Zhuo Mingfeng holding a kettle and looking into the distance.
A beautiful crescent moon hangs in the night sky, the moonlight in the desert is particularly intoxicating, I smell the mellow aroma of wine, it is estimated that only he is still in the mood to drink and admire the moon in the desert when the food is exhausted.
I sat down next to him and handed him the dry food, Zhuo Mingfeng glanced back, but brought the kettle to me, and I didn't shirk and take a big sip.
"You've been here, otherwise you wouldn't have known there was an oasis here." I'm understated.
"It's been a long time, and I can't even remember." Zhuo Mingfeng did not prevaricate, and looked into the distance bluntly. "I'm sitting here drinking, too."
The desert sand is like snow, the moon is like a hook, I really can't think of how to describe the scenery in front of me, all I can think of is this sentence, which appropriately shows the desert night vividly, and I handed him back the kettle.
"Is it also such a person who admires the moon with wine?"
"No, there is still an old man......" When Zhuo Mingfeng took the kettle, I saw a lonely smile in the corner of his mouth.
"What are you doing here?" I'm a little curious.
"There are three dragon veins in the world that have been hidden by the ancestors of the Ling family, and I have been here with the Kunlun ancestral dragon as the center to investigate around." Zhuo Mingfeng said.
"Since you are proficient in metaphysics, Ling Xuan can infer the future generations, you yourself said that you are on par with her, why bother looking for it so hard, you can know if you can count it." I asked with a smile.
"Do you really think Ling Xuan is calculated?" Zhuo Mingfeng smiled coldly.
"I really don't understand the push back map, but I heard Ling Zhihan say that it was a strange book in the world, and accurately deduced what didn't happen, if Ling Xuan didn't calculate it, then how would she know?" I asked.
"The oasis here is what I know by pinching my fingers." Zhuo Mingfeng pointed to the waterhole under the sand dunes.
"You've been here before, so you know."
Zhuo Mingfeng smiled without saying a word, raised his head and took another sip, turned his head silently and looked at the sand sea in the night.